Pyapun language

{{Short description|Afro-Asiatic language}} {{Infobox language |name=Pyapun |states=Nigeria |region=Plateau State |speakers={{sigfig|17300|2}} |date=2000 |ref=e18 |familycolor=Afro-Asiatic |fam2=Chadic |fam3=West Chadic |fam4=Bole–Angas |fam5=Angas (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 language spoken in Plateau State, Nigeria.<ref name=e18/> It is spoken in about 10 villages east of the Panyam-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]''

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