Gade | |
States: | Nigeria |
Region: | Nasarawa state |
Date: | 2000 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
Fam3: | Volta–Niger |
Fam5: | Nupoid |
Fam6: | Ebira–Gade |
Iso3: | ged |
Glotto: | gade1242 |
Glottorefname: | Gade |
Gade (Gad) is a Gadoid language of Nigeria. Glottolog 4.7 (2022) classifies it as an independent branch of Benue-Congo rather than as a Nupoid language of the Gade people.
There exist Baponu dialect, northern and southern dialects of Gade, which are mutually comprehensible.
Ethnologue lists the following locations:
Abuja Municipal Area Council and Kuje LGA
Nasarawa town, Toto LGA, and New Karshi in Karu LGA