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Adara
Eda
Native toNigeria
RegionKaduna State; Niger State
Native speakers
300,000 (2011)[1]
Language family
Niger–Congo?
  • Atlantic–Congo
    • Benue–Congo
      • Plateau
        • Central ?
          • North Plateau ?
            • Adara
Language codes
ISO 639-3kad
Glottologkada1284
PersonÀndara[2]
PeopleÀdara
LanguageÈdrà
PersonÀnda[2]
PeopleÀda
LanguageÈdà

Adara (also Eda[3] and Kadara), is a language spoken by Adara people of Kaduna state and Niger state of Nigeria. The name Adara is also used to refer to the ethnic group.

Some estimates place the population of the Adara people at around 500,000. About 80% of the Adara are Christians while some also adhere to Islam.[4]

  1. ^ Adara at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
  3. ^ Roger Blench (5 July 2009). "The Eda [= Kadara] language of Central Nigeria" (PDF).
  4. ^ Joshua project entry on the Adara

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