Tyap
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Tyap is a regionally important dialect cluster of Plateau languages in Nigeria's Middle Belt, named after its prestige dialect. It is also known by its Hausa exonym as Katab or Kataf. It is also known by the names of its dialectical varieties including Sholyio, Fantswam, Gworok, Takad, "Mabatado" (Tyap 'proper'), Tyeca̱rak and Tyuku (Tuku). In spite of being listed separately from the Tyap cluster, Jju's separation, according to Blench R.M. (2018), seems to be increasingly ethnic rather than a linguistic reality.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Tyap
- Language.altname
- Katab
- Language.region
- Kaduna and Plateau States
- Language.states
- Nigeria
- Language.ethnicity
- Atyap
- Language.dialects
- Fantswam Gworok Sholyio Takad "Mabatado" (Tyap 'proper') Tyecarak Tyuku
- Language.speakers
- 255,000
- Language.date
- 2020
- Language.speakers2
- 875,000 with Jju
- Language.ref
- e26
- Language.familycolor
- Niger-Congo
- Language.fam2
- Atlantic–Congo
- Language.fam3
- Benue–Congo
- Language.fam4
- Plateau
- Language.fam5
- Central ?
- Language.fam6
- Tyapic
- Language.iso3
- kcg
- Language.script
- Latin (Tyap alphabet)
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 255000
- Wikimedia language code
- kcg
- Commons category
- Tyap language
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27 sectionsContents
- <span class="anchor" id="Geographical distribution"></span>Distribution
- Classification and dialects
- Dialects
- Phonology
- Vowels
- Consonants
- Characteristics of Tyap and the Inter-relationship Among Its Dialects
- Syntax
- Vocabulary
- Affixes and concord
- Reduplication
- <span class="anchor" id="Some words associated with the alphabet"></span>Words associated with the alphabet
- <span class="anchor" id="Common phrases and sentences in Tyap"></span>Common phrases and sentences
- <span class="anchor" id="Comparison between Tyap dialects"></span><span class="anchor" id="Dialect comparison"></span>Comparison of dialects
- <span class="anchor" id="Numbers (Á̠na̠mba Tyap na)"></span><span class="anchor" id="Small Numbers"></span>Numbers
- 10 to 100
- <span class="anchor" id="Large Numbers"></span>Hundreds
- Thousands
- Larger numbers
- Concord
- Names for other languages
- Related languages
- <span class="anchor" id="Endangered language"></span>Endangered status
- <span class="anchor" id="See also"></span>See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Tyap is a regionally important dialect cluster of Plateau languages in Nigeria's Middle Belt, named after its prestige dialect. It is also known by its Hausa exonym as Katab or Kataf. It is also known by the names of its dialectical varieties including Sholyio, Fantswam, Gworok, Takad, "Mabatado" (Tyap 'proper'), Tyeca̱rak and Tyuku (Tuku). In spite of being listed separately from the Tyap cluster, Jju's separation, according to Blench R.M. (2018), seems to be increasingly ethnic rather than a linguistic reality.
==Distribution== Native Tyap speakers are primarily found in the local government areas of Jema'a, Kaura and Zangon Kataf, although pockets of speakers are also found in Kachia and Kauru in southern Kaduna state, and Riyom (especially Takad speakers) in Plateau State of Nigeria. There are also large speaking communities in Kaduna South and Chikun Local Government Areas of the state. Skoggard (2014) presented the distribution of the Atyap (Katab) people in Nigeria to include: Niger, Nasarawa, Kaduna states and the FCT.