vMwaghavul is a West
Chadic language formerly known as Sura
vIts closest
relatives are Ngas, Goemai etc.
vIt is spoken in
Plateau State, Nigeria. The major towns are Mangu and
Panyam
vThere are
probably ca. 200,000 speakers
vPart of its
system of verbal plurality is inherited from Afroasiatic; the
‘internal –a- plural’ which occurs in both nouns and verbs
and is attested in various branches of AA
v The second element is plurality
v The third is borrowing (apparently of
morphemes) from neighbouring
Benue-Congo languages
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