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

Huba

A language of Nigeria

ISO 639-3hbb

Population  175,000 (1992).
Region  Adamawa state, Hong, Maiha, Gombi, and Mubi LGAs.
Language map  Nigeria, Map 5, reference number 245
Alternate names   Chobba, Kilba
Dialects  Luwa.
Classification  Afro-Asiatic, Chadic, Biu-Mandara, A, A.2, 2
Language use  Also use Hausa [hau] or Fulfulde [fuv].
Language development  Nearly all villages have primary schools; some have secondary schools. Literacy program in progress. Bible portions: 1976.
Comments  Agriculturalists; animal husbandry: cattle; weavers; cloth dyers.