Laka or Lau is a Central Sudanic language spoken in Nigeria.[2] 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.[3][4]
| Lau Laka | |
|---|---|
| Laka | |
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Lau LGA, Taraba State |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | lak (deprecated)[1] |
| Glottolog | laka1252 |
| IETF | ksp-NG |
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edit- ↑ Still misclassified in Ethnologue (22nd ed.) and Glottolog 4.1.
- ↑ Adelberger, Jörg; Blench, Roger (2026). "The peopling of the Muri Mountains, Northern Nigeria: evidence from linguistics and ethnography". AAeO - Afrikanistik-Aegyptologie-Online. doi:10.18716/OJS/AAEO/2026_12031.
- 1 2 3 Idiatov, Dmitry, Mark Van de Velde, Tope Olagunju and Bitrus Andrew. 2017. Results of the first AdaGram survey in Adamawa and Taraba States, Nigeria. 47th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics (CALL) (Leiden, Netherlands).
- ↑ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
- ↑ Blench, Roger. "The Central Sudanic languages in the context of Nilo-Saharan: a new overview". Academia.edu. Retrieved 25 August 2018.