Pan language

Pan is an Afro-Asiatic dialect cluster spoken in Plateau State, Nigeria.

Kofyar
Pan
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Plateau State
Ethnicity	Kofyar
Native speakers	(110,000 cited 2000)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic West Chadic Bole–Angas Angas (A.3) Kofyar
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kwl
Glottolog	kofy1242

Dialects

Dialects are Bwol, Dimmuk (Doemak), Gworam, Jipal, Kofyar (Kwong), Kwagallak (Kwolla), and Mirriam (Mernyang).^[1]

Blench (2019) lists the following language varieties in the Pan cluster.^[2] Village locations are cited by Blench (2019) from Hon, et al. (2014).^[3]

• Mernyang: spoken in Dokan Kasuwa, Dokan Tofa, Kwaning, Laardang, Kwang, Kwa, Miket villages
• Doemak: spoken in Kofyar Doemak, Goechim, Ba'ap, Kopar, Doemak villages
• Tèŋ (Teng): spoken in Nteng, Gyeer, Ɗoop, Kelaghan, Loon, Kwakii, Zhep Morop, Gorom villages^[4]
• Kwagallak: spoken in Tim, Kopfogon, Chim, Yitiar, Kwoor, Kwalla, Shangfuup, Kopbepang, Moeda villages
• Bwol (Bwall): spoken in Dungras, Nakum, Tanba, Bwall, Goepil villages
• Gworam
• Jipal: spoken in Katul, Kabum, Kanjing, Kaburuk, Shawk, Kaper, rundum, Jipal, Bul, Kwa, Male, Zwakal villages
• Shindai

Note that in the villages names, orthographic oe stands for the mid central vowel ə, a practice that had been adopted by missionaries in the Shendam area during the 1930s, such as Father E. Sirlinger.^[5][6][7]