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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Africa > Nigeria > Geruma

Geruma

A language of Nigeria

ISO 639-3gea

Population  9,030 (2000).
Region  Bauchi state, Toro, Ganjuwa, Bauchi, and South Ningi LGAs.
Language map  Nigeria, Map 3, reference number 134
Alternate names   Gerema, Germa
Dialects  Sum, Duurum.
Classification  Afro-Asiatic, Chadic, West, A, A.2, Bole, Bole Proper
Language use  Shifting to Hausa [hau].
Comments  Agriculturalists: guinea corn, millet, maize, peanuts, beans, rice. Muslim, traditional religion.