u̠t-Ma'in or Fakai is a Northwest Kainjidialect continuum spoken by 36,000 people in Nigeria. (The letter ⟨u̠⟩ is /ə/.) There are numerous rather divergent dialects:
Kag (Puku, Fakanchi, Et-Kag)
Jiir (Gelanchi, Et-Jiir)
Kur (Kere, Kar, Keri-Ni, Kelli-Ni, Kelanchi, Kelinci)
language, fakai, northwest, kainji, dialect, continuum, spoken, people, nigeria, letter, there, numerous, rather, divergent, dialects, puku, fakanchi, jiir, gelanchi, jiir, kere, keri, kelli, kelanchi, kelinci, zuksun, zussun, zuksun, maror, tudanchi, gwar, fe. u t Ma in or Fakai is a Northwest Kainji dialect continuum spoken by 36 000 people in Nigeria The letter u is e There are numerous rather divergent dialects Kag Puku Fakanchi Et Kag Jiir Gelanchi Et Jiir Kur Kere Kar Keri Ni Kelli Ni Kelanchi Kelinci Zuksun Zussun Et Zuksun Ror Et Maror Tudanchi Er Gwar Fer Fere Et Fer Wipsi Ni Kukum Us Et Us Koor Kulu Ut MainNative toNigeriaRegionKebbi State Niger State Sokoto State Zamfara StateNative speakers 36 000 cited 1992 1 Language familyNiger Congo Atlantic CongoBenue CongoKainjiNorthwest KainjiUt MainLanguage codesISO 639 3 a href https iso639 3 sil org code gel class extiw title iso639 3 gel gel a Glottologkagf1238 Contents 1 Names 2 Geographic distribution 3 References 4 Further readingNames editNames for the u t Ma in peoples and languages from Blench 2012 2 Hausa name c Lela name People Language Fakkawa Pek nu Kag ne ǝt Kag Fakkawa Pek nu es Us ǝt Us Gelawa Geeri ni a Jiir ǝt Jiir Zuksun Wipsi ni a Zuksun ǝt Zuksun Kukumawa Wipsi ni es Fer ǝt Fer Kelawa Keri ni Ker ni ǝt Ker Tuduwa ǝd Gwan a Ror ǝt ma Ror Kuluwa a Koor ǝt ma KoorGeographic distribution editThe Ut Ma in language is spoken mainly in Kebbi State especially Fakai and Sokoto State Kebbe but also in Niger State Kontagora and Zamfara State References edit Ut Main at Ethnologue 18th ed 2015 subscription required Blench Roger 2012 The Kainji languages of northwestern and central Nigeria PDF Cambridge Kay Williamson Educational Foundation Further reading editA sociolinguistic survey of the people of the Fakai district This article about Kainji languages is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title U t Ma 27in language amp oldid 1136392526, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
