Putai language

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Putai
Spoken in: Nigeria 
Region: Borno State
Total speakers: 50
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
 Chadic
  Biu-Mandara
   A
    A.2
     A.2.1
      Putai
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: –
ISO 639-3: mfl
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.

Putai (also known as Marghi West) is a nearly extinct Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria. The language is dying out in favor of Kanuri. [1]

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  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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