Sha language

Sha
Sha
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Plateau State
Native speakers	(3,000 cited 1998)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic West Chadic Bole–Angas Ron (A.4) Sha; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	scw
Glottolog	shaa1247
ELP	Sha

Sha is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Plateau State and Kaduna State, Nigeria.^[1] As of 2018, the language is used for face-to-face communication and lacks a standardized written form. It is spoken by approximately 1,000 people and is considered sustainable.^[2]

The primary area where Sha is spoken is in Sha District, Bokkos LGA, Plateau State. Mundat, a closely related language also belonging to the Chadic A.4 branch, is spoken in Mundat village within the same district.^[3]

Notes

^ ^a ^b Sha at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ "Sha". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
^ Blench, Roger M. 2003. Why reconstructing comparative Ron is so problematic. In Wolff, Ekkehard (ed.), Topics in Chadic linguistics: papers from the 1st biennial international colloquium on the Chadic language family (Leipzig, July 5-8, 2001), 21-42. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.