Angas

E222780

Angas is a major West Chadic language spoken primarily in central Nigeria.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Angas canonical 4
Angas–Sura 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Afroasiatic language ⓘ
Chadic language ⓘ
West Chadic language ⓘ
language ⓘ
alternativeName Ngas ⓘ
belongsToLinguisticArea Jos Plateau area ⓘ
linked to: Jos Plateau
continent Africa ⓘ
country Nigeria ⓘ
endangermentStatus vigorous (regional language) ⓘ
glottocode anga1313 ⓘ
glottologName Angas ⓘ
hasBibleTranslation partial ⓘ
hasDialect Hill Angas ⓘ
Plain Angas ⓘ
hasLinguisticFeature noun class-like gender distinctions ⓘ
rich verbal morphology ⓘ
tone language ⓘ
hasMorphosyntacticFeature prepositions rather than postpositions ⓘ
subject-verb agreement ⓘ
hasOrthographicVariation Angas ⓘ
Ngas ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature consonant length contrasts ⓘ
contrastive tone ⓘ
hasStandardizedOrthography yes ⓘ
iso639-3Code anc ⓘ
languageBranch West Chadic ⓘ
languageFamily Afroasiatic ⓘ
languageGroup Angas languages ⓘ
languageSubfamily Chadic ⓘ
linguisticClassificationDetail West Chadic A.3 ⓘ
macrolanguage none ⓘ
neighboringLanguages Goemai ⓘ
Mupun ⓘ
Mwaghavul ⓘ
Tarok ⓘ
primaryWordOrder SVO ⓘ
regionOfUse Mangu area ⓘ
linked to: Mangu

Pankshin area ⓘ
spokenIn Nigeria ⓘ
spokenInRegion central Nigeria ⓘ
spokenInState Kaduna State ⓘ
Plateau State ⓘ
usedByEthnicGroup Ngas people ⓘ
usedInDomain local education ⓘ
local media ⓘ
religious practice ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Angas → glottologName → Angas ⓘ
Tal language → languageSubgroup → Angas–Sura ⓘ
linked to: Angas
Doemak language → languageGroup → Angas–Sura ⓘ
linked to: Angas
Miship language → languageGroup → Angas–Sura ⓘ
linked to: Angas
Mupun language → languageGroup → Angas–Sura ⓘ
linked to: Angas
Ngas language → hasExonym → Angas ⓘ