Hõne | |
States: | Nigeria |
Region: | Gombe State and Taraba State |
Speakers: | 7,000 |
Date: | 1999 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
Fam3: | Benue–Congo |
Fam4: | Jukunoid |
Fam5: | Central |
Fam6: | Jukun |
Dia1: | Pindiga |
Dia2: | Gwana |
Iso3: | juh |
Glotto: | hone1235 |
Glottorefname: | Hone |
Hõne is a Jukunoid language spoken in Gombe State and Taraba State, Nigeria. Speakers of the two dialects, Pindiga and Gwana, can only understand each other with difficulty. It belongs to the Jukun Wapan (Kororofa) language cluster.[1]
Hõne is spoken in Akko, Billiri, Shongom, and Karim-Lamido LGAs. Ethnologue (22nd ed.) lists villages as: