Pan language

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title: "Pan language" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["west-chadic-languages", "languages-of-nigeria"] description: "Afro-Asiatic language" topic_path: "linguistics" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_language" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Afro-Asiatic language ::

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Field	Value
name	Kofyar
altname	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
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|name=Kofyar |altname=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. Village locations are cited by Blench (2019) from Hon, et al. (2014).

• 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
• 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.

Notes

References

1. Blench, Roger. (2019). "An Atlas of Nigerian Languages". Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
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. Blench, Roger. (2019). "Nteng: an undocumented language of Central Nigeria".
4. Blench, Roger. 2017. [https://www.academia.edu/35507157/CURRENT_RESEARCH_ON_THE_A3_WEST_CHADIC_LANGUAGES 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.

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