Pan language explained

Kofyar
Also Known As:	Pan
States:	Nigeria
Region:	Plateau State
Ethnicity:	Kofyar
Speakers:	110,000
Date:	2000
Ref:	e18
Familycolor:	Afro-Asiatic
Fam2:	Chadic
Fam3:	West Chadic
Fam4:	Bole–Angas
Fam5:	Angas (A.3)
Iso3:	kwl
Glotto:	kofy1242
Glottorefname:	Pan

Pan is an Afro-Asiatic dialect cluster spoken in Plateau State, Nigeria.

Dialects

Dialects are Bwol, Dimmuk (Doemak), Gworam, Jipal, Kofyar (Kwong), Kwagallak (Kwolla), and Mirriam (Mernyang).

Blench (2019) lists the following language varieties in the Pan cluster.^[1] Village locations are cited by Blench (2019) from Hon, et al. (2014).^[2]

• Mernyang: spoken in Dokan Kasuwa, Dokan Tofa, Kwaning, Laardang, Kwang, Kwa, Miket villages
• Doemak: spoken in Kofyar Doemak, Goechim, Ba'ap, Kopar, Doemak villages
• Tèŋ (Teng): spoken in Nteng, Gyeer, Ɗoop, Kelaghan, Loon, Kwakii, Zhep Morop, Gorom villages^[3]
• Kwagallak: spoken in Tim, Kopfogon, Chim, Yitiar, Kwoor, Kwalla, Shangfuup, Kopbepang, Moeda villages
• Bwol (Bwall): spoken in Dungras, Nakum, Tanba, Bwall, Goepil villages
• Gworam
• Jipal

spoken in Katul, Kabum, Kanjing, Kaburuk, Shawk, Kaper, rundum, Jipal, Bul, Kwa, Male, Zwakal villages

• Shindai

Note that in the villages names, orthographic oe stands for the mid central vowel ə, a practice that had been adopted by missionaries in the Shendam area during the 1930s, such as Father E. Sirlinger.^{[4] [5] [6]}

Notes and References

1. Book: Blench, Roger. An Atlas of Nigerian Languages. Kay Williamson Educational Foundation. 2019. 4th. Cambridge.
2. Hon, Luther; Gobak, Fittokka; Agwom, Izang; Muniru, John; Nweke, Uche S. 2014. A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Kofyar (Koffiar) of Plateau State, Nigeria. Ms. Jos, Nigeria: Language Development Facilitators.
3. Web site: Blench. Roger. Roger Blench. 2019. Nteng: an undocumented language of Central Nigeria.
4. Blench, Roger. 2017. Current research on the A3 West Chadic languages.
5. Sirlinger, Father E. 1937. Dictionary of the Goemai Language. Prefecture Apostolic of Jos. Typescript.
6. Sirlinger, Father E. 1942. A grammar of the Goemai Language. Prefecture Apostolic of Jos. Typescript.