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The Ron, Ronic or Ron–Fyer languages, group A.4 of the West Chadic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family, are spoken in Plateau State, north-central Nigeria.

The Ron languages have undergone extensive influence from Tarok.[1]
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Languages
The Ron languages, and their tentative relationships, are:[2][3]
- Ron
- Fyer, Tambas
- (branch)
- Central Ron
- Daffo-Mbar-Butura
- Bokkos
- Monguna (Shagawu) [perhaps actually closer to Sha]
- Sha
- Mangar
- Mundat–Karfa
- Kulere (Richa)
- Central Ron
Blench (2019)[4] groups the following in the (Central) Ron/Run dialect cluster: Bokkos, Mbar, Daffo–Butura, Manguna, Mangar, Sha.
While noting that Ron is in fact a complex linkage, Blench (2003) rejects two of the connections proposed in Seibert (1998) [Sha with Mundat–Karfa and Mangar with Kulere/Richa]:[5]
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Names and locations
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Below is a comprehensive list of Ron language names, populations, and locations from Blench (2019).[4]
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Reconstruction
Since the Ron languages form a diverse linkage, Ron reconstruction is not straightforward due to the lack of neat sound correspondences. There are many borrowings from neighbouring Niger-Congo Plateau languages that Ron had assimilated or been in contact with.[3]
Proto-Ron reconstructions by Roger Blench are as follows.[2]
Morphology
Plurals of nouns in Ron languages are typically formed with -a- infixes.[6]
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