Mwaghavul language
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Mwaghavul is an Afro-Asiatic
language spoken in Plateau State
, Nigeria
. Dialects are Mupun and Panyam.
Mwaghavul has one of the most elaborate systems of logophoricity
known in any language (see).
Afro-Asiatic languages
The Afroasiatic languages , also known as Hamito-Semitic, constitute one of the world's largest language families, with about 375 living languages...
language spoken in Plateau State
Plateau State
Plateau State is the twelfth largest state of Nigeria, and is roughly located in the center of the country. It is geographically unique in Nigeria because its boundaries totally surround the Jos Plateau, having the Jos Plateau totally in its central and northern part...
, Nigeria
Nigeria
Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...
. Dialects are Mupun and Panyam.
Mwaghavul has one of the most elaborate systems of logophoricity
Logophoricity
In linguistics, logophoricity is a kind of coreferential anaphora, where the third-person subject of a dependent clause is marked as identical to the subject of the main clause. Logophoric systems are frequently restricted to indirect speech....
known in any language (see).
Further reading
- Roger Blench, Mwaghavul - English dictionary, unpublished.
- Zygmunt Frajzyngier. 1993. A Grammar of Mupun. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag.