Cicipu is a Benue-Congo language spoken by about 20,000 people in northwest Nigeria. Members of the ethnic group are called Acipu. Like most Benue-Congo languages, Cicipu has a complex noun class system. It has a fairly complex phonology with lexical and grammatical tone, vowel harmony, and nasalisation. Cicipu speakers virtually all speak the lingua franca Hausa. Many also speak other nearby languages.

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  • Cicipu is a Benue-Congo language spoken by about 20,000 people in northwest Nigeria. Members of the ethnic group are called Acipu. Like most Benue-Congo languages, Cicipu has a complex noun class system. It has a fairly complex phonology with lexical and grammatical tone, vowel harmony, and nasalisation. Cicipu speakers virtually all speak the lingua franca Hausa. Many also speak other nearby languages.
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  • Niger-Congo
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  • Cicipu
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  • 20,000 (CAPRO 1995)
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  • Cicipu is a Benue-Congo language spoken by about 20,000 people in northwest Nigeria. Members of the ethnic group are called Acipu. Like most Benue-Congo languages, Cicipu has a complex noun class system. It has a fairly complex phonology with lexical and grammatical tone, vowel harmony, and nasalisation. Cicipu speakers virtually all speak the lingua franca Hausa. Many also speak other nearby languages.
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  • Cicipu
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  • Cicipu
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