# Pyapun language

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{{Short description|Afro-Asiatic language}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Pyapun
|states=[Nigeria](/source/Nigeria)
|region=[Plateau State](/source/Plateau_State)
|speakers={{sigfig|17300|2}}
|date=2000
|ref=e18
|familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
|fam2=[Chadic](/source/Chadic_languages)
|fam3=[West Chadic](/source/West_Chadic_languages)
|fam4=[Bole–Angas](/source/Bole%E2%80%93Angas_languages)
|fam5=[Angas](/source/Angas_languages) (A.3)<ref>Blench, 2006. [http://rogerblench.info/Language/Afroasiatic/General/AALIST.pdf The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List] (ms)</ref>
|iso3=pcw
|glotto=pyap1239
|glottorefname=Pyapun
}}

'''Pyapun''' is an [Afro-Asiatic](/source/Afro-Asiatic_languages) language spoken in [Plateau State](/source/Plateau_State), [Nigeria](/source/Nigeria).<ref name=e18/> It is spoken in about 10 villages east of the [Panyam](/source/Panyam)-[Shendam](/source/Shendam) road.<ref name="Blench2017">Blench, Roger. 2017. [https://www.academia.edu/35507157/CURRENT_RESEARCH_ON_THE_A3_WEST_CHADIC_LANGUAGES Current research on the A3 West Chadic languages].</ref>

==Further reading==
*''[https://www.sil.org/resources/publications/entry/88034 A Sociolinguistic Profile of the Piapung (Pyapun) <nowiki>[pcw]</nowiki> Language of Plateau State, Nigeria]''

== Notes ==
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{{Languages of Nigeria}}
{{West Chadic languages}}

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