Goemai | |
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Native to | Nigeria |
Region | Plateau State |
Native speakers
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200,000 (1995) |
Afro-Asiatic
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
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Glottolog | goem1240 |
Goemai is an Afro-Asiatic (Chadic, West Chadic A) language spoken in the Plateau state of Central Nigeria by approximately 200,000 people. Its speakers refer to themselves and their language as 'Goemai'; in older linguistic, historical and ethnographical literature the term 'Ankwe' has been used to refer to the people.
Goemai is a predominantly isolating language with the subject–verb–object constituent order.