Ron
Native toNigeria
RegionPlateau State
Native speakers
180,000 (2006)[1]
Dialects
  • Bokkos
  • Mbar
  • Daffo-Butura
  • Shagawu
Language codes
ISO 639-3cla
Glottologronn1241  Ron
mang1417  Mangar
Butura dancers during the Nawhai Festival in Bokkos.

Ron (Run; also known as Challa, Chala) is an Afro-Asiatic language cluster spoken in Plateau State, Nigeria. Dialects include Bokkos, Daffo-Mbar-Butura (incl. Mangar), Monguna/Manguna (Shagau), (20,000 speakers).[1] Blench (2006) considers these to be separate languages.[2]

Varieties

Blench (2019) lists these language varieties in the Ron (Run) cluster:[3]

Daffo-Mbar-Butura is spoken in Hottom, Maiduna, Hurum, Fanga, Kandik, Faram, Mandung, Mayi, and Josho villages.[4]

Manguna (Shagau) is spoken in Manguna, Mahurum, Hurti, Gwande, Dambwash and Karfa

Curiosity

Although modern Ron uses a decimal system, it is well attested that in the past a duodecimal counting system was used.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Ron at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List (ms)
  3. ^ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
  4. ^ Blench, Roger M. 2003. Why reconstructing comparative Ron is so problematic. In Wolff, Ekkehard (ed.), Topics in Chadic linguistics: papers from the 1st biennial international colloquium on the Chadic language family (Leipzig, July 5-8, 2001), 21-42. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
  5. ^ Dr. Uwe Seibert, Summer Institute of Linguistics and University of Jos, Nigeria, March 1, 1999: Ron Numerals

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Languages of Nigeria
West Chadic languages
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