Paʼa languageChadic language spoken in Nigeria
| Person | FuCiki[2] |
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| People | Foni |
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Paʼa, also known as Afa (Afawa) or Fucaka (autonym), is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Bauchi State, Nigeria.[1]
Phonology
Additionally, the following diphthongs are recorded: /ei/, /au/.
Pa'a also has four tones;[3] high, mid, low, and falling.
Notes
- 1 2 Paʼa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ↑ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
- 1 2 3 Skinner, Margaret Gardner (1979). Aspects of Pa'anci Grammar (PhD thesis). University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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