Adara language Plateau language spoken in Nigeria
Person Àndara[ 2] People Àdara Language Èdrà
Person Ànda[ 2] People Àda Language Èdà
Adara (also Eda [ 3] Kadara ), is a Central Plateau language[ 4] Adara people of Kaduna state and Niger state of Nigeria . The name Adara is also used to refer to the ethnic group.
Some estimates place the population of the Adara people at around 500,000. About 80% of the Adara are Christians while some also adhere to Islam.[ 5]
Dialects
Dialects of the Adara language include the Adara dialect, Eneje, Ada, Ekhwa , and Ajiya .[ 6] : 1
Blench (2019) lists Eda, Edra, and Enezhe as dialects.[ 2]
References
↑ Adara at Ethnologue (subscription required) 1 2 3 Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation. 1 2 3 Roger Blench (5 July 2009). "The Eda [ = Kadara] language of Central Nigeria" (PDF) . ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). "Kadara" . Glottolog ↑ Joshua project entry on the Adara 1 2 Hon, Luther; Ajaegbu, Grace; Magnusson, Carol; Nweke, Uche S.; Yoder, Zachariah (27 April 2012). "A Summary of a Sociolinguistic Survey of the Adara of Kaduna and Niger States, Nigeria" (PDF) . SIL .