{{Short description|Plateau language spoken in Nigeria}} {{distinguish|Gyem language}} {{Infobox language | name = Pyem | altname = Pyam, Fyam, Fyem | ethnicity = Pyem people | states = Nigeria | region = Plateau State | speakers = {{sigfig|31,000|2}} | date = 1996 census | ref = e25 | familycolor = Niger-Congo | fam2 = Atlantic–Congo | fam3 = Benue–Congo | fam4 = Plateau | fam5 = East | iso3 = pym | glotto = fyam1238 | glottorefname = Fyam | map = Lang Status 40-SE.svg | mapcaption = {{center|{{small|Pyem is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO ''Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger''}}}} }} '''Pyem''' (Pyam, Gye; Hausa: Fyam, Fyem) is a Plateau language of Nigeria. It is spoken by the people of Pyem Chiefdom with headquarters in Gindiri.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://viewpointnigeria.org/gov-lalong-approves-the-creation-of-new-chiefdoms-in-plateau/|title=Gov Lalong approves the creation of new chiefdoms in Plateau|last=Nanmwa|first=Golok|location=Jos|website=Viewpoint Nigeria|access-date=June 4, 2024}}</ref> Pyem is one of the indigenous languages spoken in Mangu LGA, Plateau State, Nigeria.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.plateaustate.gov.ng/government/lgas/mangu|title=Mangu Local Government Area|website=Plateau State.gov|access-date=June 5, 2024}}</ref>
==Revitalization efforts== Most Pyem youths no longer speak the language.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.webonary.org/pyam/overview/introduction/|title=Pyam Dictionary|website=SIL International|access-date=June 18, 2024}}</ref>
In 2018, the Ba-Pyam Azonci Association with support from some U.S. partners, commissioned the publication of books in Pyem to save it from going extinct. Examples of such books are ''Shalai na Waari na DePyam'', "Reading and Writing in Pyem"; ''Beer, Kwor, Na Cikam Arye'', "Relationship, Counting, Proverbs, Names, and Directions"; etc.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://dailytrust.com/pyam-nation-moves-to-revive-language-publishes-books-in-mother-tongue/#google_vignette|title=Pyam Nation Moves To Revive Language, Publishes Books In Mother Tongue|last=Adama|first=Dickson S.|date=November 8, 2018|location=Jos|access-date=June 18, 2024|newspaper=Daily Trust}}</ref>
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==External links== *Blench, Roger. 2010. [https://www.academia.edu/7160278/Plural_verbs_in_the_languages_of_Central_Nigeria Plural verbs in the languages of Central Nigeria]. {{plateau-lang-stub}} {{Languages of Nigeria}} {{Platoid languages}} Category:Languages of Nigeria Category:East Plateau languages