Sha language

Sha
Sha
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Plateau State
Native speakers	3,000 (1998)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic West Chadic Bole–Angas Ron (A.4) Sha; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	scw
Glottolog	shaa1247
ELP	Sha

Sha is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Plateau State and Kaduna State, Nigeria.[1] As of 2018, the language is in use for face-to-face communication and has no standardized written form. The language is spoken by roughly 1000 people and is sustainable.[2]

The main area of Sha is in Sha District, Bokkos LGA, Plateau State. Mundat, a closely related language also belonging to the Chadic A.4 branch, is spoken in Mundat village of the same district.[3]

Notes

Sha at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
"Sha". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
Blench, Roger M. 2003. Why reconstructing comparative Ron is so problematic. In Wolff, Ekkehard (ed.), Topics in Chadic linguistics: papers from the 1st biennial international colloquium on the Chadic language family (Leipzig, July 5-8, 2001), 21-42. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.

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[e18-1] Sha at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] "Sha". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-10-11.

[Ron-paper-3] Blench, Roger M. 2003. Why reconstructing comparative Ron is so problematic. In Wolff, Ekkehard (ed.), Topics in Chadic linguistics: papers from the 1st biennial international colloquium on the Chadic language family (Leipzig, July 5-8, 2001), 21-42. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.