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Lau Laka language

Central Sudanic language spoken in Nigeria From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Laka or Lau is a Central Sudanic language spoken in Nigeria. It is most closely related to Kabba Laka of Chad. The Hausa refer to the Laka people of Lau as Lakawa. The language was only recently documented in the mid-2010s, and had been previously misclassified as a Mbum language along with Lau.[2][3]

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Distribution

Laka speakers live in Laka ward of Lau LGA (Hausa: Angawan Lakawa; formerly Garin Lakawa 'Laka town'), Taraba State, eastern Nigeria.[2] They live alongside the Win Lau (or Lau proper; formerly Lau Habe), who are Jukunoid speakers.[4]

Lexical comparison

The following table compares Laka (Lau) and Laka (Chad), both of which are Central Sudanic languages, with Lau proper, a Jukunoid language.[2]

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