Shammo languages explained

Shammo
Also Known As:	Jere
Region:	Plateau, Bauchi, and Kaduna states, Nigeria
Familycolor:	Niger-Congo
Fam2:	Atlantic–Congo
Fam3:	Volta-Congo
Fam4:	Benue–Congo
Fam5:	Kainji
Fam6:	East Kainji
Child1:	Zele
Child2:	Boze
Child3:	Panawa
Child4:	Sanga
Child5:	Gusu
Child6:	Moro
Child7:	Loro
Child8:	Bunu
Child9:	? Tunzu
Glotto:	boze1240
Glottorefname:	Boze-Loro

The Shammo (Shammɔ) or Jere languages are spoken in north-central Nigeria.^[1] They form a subgroup within the East Kainji languages.^[2]

A common greeting, Shammɔ, is used in all of the Shammo languages.^[2]

Languages

• Shammɔ languages^[2]
  • Zele cluster
    • Zele (Jere)
    • Boze (Buji), Panawa (Bujiyel)
  • Sanga, Gusu, Moro
  • Loro, Bunu (Ribina)
  • ? Tunzu (Duguza)

Further reading

• Gunn, H.D. 1953. Peoples of the Plateau Area of Northern Nigeria. IAI, London.
• Nengel, J.G. 1999. Precolonial African intergroup relations in the Kauru and Pengana polities of Central Nigerian Highlands, 1800-1900. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
• Nengel, J.G. 2019. A history of the Boze polity of Plateau State, Nigeria. Ilishan-Remo, Nigeria: Babcock University Press.
• Shimizu, Kiyoshi 1968. An outline of the I-búnú noun class system. Department of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages, Ibadan University.
• Shimizu, Kiyoshi 1975. The language groups in and around Benue-Plateau State. mimeo. Centre for the Study of Nigerian Languages, Kano.
• Shimizu, Kiyoshi 1980. Five wordlists with analyses from the Northern Jos Group of Plateau Languages. Afrika und Übersee, 62:4.253-271.
• Shimizu, Kiyoshi 1982a. Ten more wordlists with analyses from the Northern Jos Group of Plateau Languages. Afrika und Übersee, 65:1.97-134.
• Shimizu, Kiyoshi 1982b. Die Nord-Jos-Gruppe der Plateausprachen Nigerias. Afrika und Übersee, 65(2):161-210.
• Temple, Olive 1922. Notes on the Tribes, Provinces, Emirates and States of the Northern Provinces of Nigeria. Argus Printing and Publishing Co. Cape Town.

Notes and References

1. Blench, Roger M. 2018. Nominal affixing in the Kainji languages of northwestern and central Nigeria. In John R. Watters (ed.), East Benue-Congo: Nouns, pronouns, and verbs, 59–106. Berlin: Language Science Press.
2. Blench, Roger. 2021. Introduction to the Shammɔ peoples of Central Nigeria.