Eggon language

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Eggon language is a Plateau language of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family, spoken primarily by the Eggon people in central Nigeria.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Eggon language canonical 2

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Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Benue–Congo language
Niger–Congo language
Plateau language
language
country Nigeria
hasAlternativeName Eggon
Egón
Mada Eggon
linked to: Eggon
hasConsonantInventoryType moderate
hasDialect Eggon of Arikpa
linked to: Eggon of Wakama

Eggon of Nassarawa-Eggon area
Eggon of Wakama
hasDomainOfUse home
local markets
traditional ceremonies
hasEthnicity Eggon people NERFINISHED
hasGlottocode eggo1241
hasISO6393Code ego
hasLinguisticClassification Atlantic–Congo
Benue–Congo
Plateau
linked to: PLATEAU

Volta–Congo
linked to: Volta-Congo
hasMorphologyType agglutinative
hasPrimaryUse everyday communication within Eggon communities
hasVowelSystemType seven-vowel system
hasWordOrder SVO
isEndangered true
isSpokenAsL1 true
isSpokenByPopulation tens of thousands of speakers
isSubjectOf descriptive linguistic studies on Plateau languages
isTonalLanguage true
languageBranch Benue–Congo
languageFamily Niger–Congo
languageGroup Plateau
neighboringLanguages Alago language
Gwandara language
Mada language
partOf Benue–Congo branch
Niger–Congo language family
region Nasarawa State NERFINISHED
spokenBy Eggon people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Nigeria
central Nigeria
subfamilyOf Plateau languages
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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

Eggon people language Eggon language
Eggon languageSpoken Eggon language