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

Pero

A language of Nigeria

ISO 639-3pip

Population  25,000 (1995 CAPRO).
Region  Gombe state, Kaltungo LGA, Gwandum, Gundalf, Kushi, Yapito, and Burak.
Language map  Nigeria, Map 3, reference number 189
Alternate names   Filiya, Pipero
Classification  Afro-Asiatic, Chadic, West, A, A.2, Tangale, Tangale Proper
Language use  Also use Hausa [hau].
Language development  Dictionary. Grammar. Bible portions: 1936–1938.
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  Agriculturalists: guinea corn, peanuts, beniseed, millet, maize, cotton, beans, fruit. Christian.