Gyel dialect

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The Gyel dialect is a regional variety of the Berom language spoken by the Berom people of central Nigeria.

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Label Occurrences
Gyel dialect canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (27)

Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
variety of the Berom language
associatedWith Berom culture
endangermentStatus potentially endangered
ethnicGroup Berom people NERFINISHED
geographicDistribution Plateau State, Nigeria NERFINISHED
hasLinguisticFeature noun class system
subject–verb–object word order
tonal language
isMutuallyIntelligibleWith other Berom dialects
isSpokenAlongside Hausa
surface form: Hausa language

Nigerian English
Berom
surface form: Standard Berom
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
surface form: Afro-Asiatic languages
languageFamilyBranch Benue–Congo languages
Niger–Congo languages
surface form: Niger-Congo languages
languageGroup Beromic languages
languageStatus minority language variety
languageSubfamily Plateau languages
partOfLanguage Berom language
spokenBy Berom people NERFINISHED
spokenInCountry Nigeria
spokenInRegion central Nigeria
usedFor everyday communication
local cultural practices
oral tradition
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Berom language hasDialect Gyel dialect