Ut Main
Native toNigeria
RegionKebbi State, Niger State, Sokoto State, Zamfara State
Native speakers
(36,000 cited 1992)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3gel
Glottologkagf1238

u̠t-Ma'in or Fakai is a Northwest Kainji dialect continuum spoken by 36,000 people in Nigeria. (The letter is /ə/.) There are numerous rather divergent dialects:

  • Kag (Puku, Fakanchi, Et-Kag)
  • Jiir (Gelanchi, Et-Jiir)
  • Kur (Kere, Kar, Keri-Ni, Kelli-Ni, Kelanchi, Kelinci)
  • Zuksun (Zussun, Et-Zuksun)
  • Ror (Et-Maror, Tudanchi, Er-Gwar)
  • Fer (Fere, Et-Fer, Wipsi-Ni, Kukum)
  • Us (Et-Us)
  • Koor (Kulu)

Names

Names for the u̠t-Ma'in peoples and languages from Blench (2012):[2]

Hausa namec-Lela namePeopleLanguage
FakkawaPək-nuKag-neǝt-Kag
FakkawaPək-nuəs-Usǝt-Us
GelawaGeeri-nia-Jiirǝt-Jiir
ZuksunWipsi-nia-Zuksunǝt-Zuksun
KukumawaWipsi-niəs-Ferǝt-Fer
KelawaKeri-niKər-niǝt-Kər
Tuduwaǝd-Gwana-Rorǝt-ma-Ror
Kuluwa ?a-Koorǝt-ma-Koor

Geographic distribution

The Ut-Ma'in language is spoken mainly in Kebbi State (especially Fakai) and Sokoto State (Kebbe) but also in Niger State (Kontagora) and Zamfara State.

References

  1. Ut Main at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Blench, Roger (2012). "The Kainji languages of northwestern and central Nigeria" (PDF). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.

Further reading


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