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Ron languages
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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.

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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

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

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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]

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Morphology

Plurals of nouns in Ron languages are typically formed with -a- infixes.[6]

References

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