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- Eggon_language abstract "Eggon (also Egon, Ero, Mo Egon, Hill Mada, or Mada Eggon) is one of the Benue–Congo languages spoken in Nigeria.The Eggon language is spoken by a large number of people in Nassarawa State in Central Nigeria. These represent the modern Local Government Areas of Akwanga, Lafia and Nassarawa-Eggon. The main towns of the Eggon people are Nassarawa-Eggon, Kagbu and Wana. They stretch as far south as Lafia and west of Akwanga as far as the railway line. They are bordered on the north by the Mada and to the south by the Migili and the DomaIn much of the colonial literature, the Eggon were known as the 'Hill Mada' in contrast to the 'Plains Mada', the people known as Mada today. The Eggon lived in the Mada hills south of Akwanga in the pre-colonial period, but there is no connection between the groups that would justify these terms and they have now been discarded.The exact number of speakers is unknown but it is unlikely to be less than the estimate of 200,000 given by Sibomana (1985). Ames (1934) gave a figure of 41,276 for the 1920s, but this is likely to have been substantially underestimated. Welmers (1971) estimated 52,000 although this may have been only a projection from Ames. Very little has been written about Eggon society and Temple (1922) and Ames (1934) are the only sources that contain any descriptions of Eggon social organisation.".
- Eggon_language iso6393Code "ego".
- Eggon_language languageFamily Atlantic%E2%80%93Congo_languages.
- Eggon_language languageFamily Benue%E2%80%93Congo_languages.
- Eggon_language languageFamily Plateau_languages.
- Eggon_language languageFamily South_Plateau_languages.
- Eggon_language spokenIn Nigeria.
- Eggon_language wikiPageExternalLink eggon.htm.
- Eggon_language wikiPageID "5131815".
- Eggon_language wikiPageRevisionID "577272096".
- Eggon_language date "1990".
- Eggon_language fam Atlantic–Congo_languages.
- Eggon_language fam Benue–Congo_languages.
- Eggon_language fam Plateau_languages.
- Eggon_language fam South_Plateau_languages.
- Eggon_language fam "Eggonic".
- Eggon_language familycolor "Niger-Congo".
- Eggon_language hasPhotoCollection Eggon_language.
- Eggon_language iso "ego".
- Eggon_language name "Eggon".
- Eggon_language ref "e17".
- Eggon_language region "Nasarawa, Kaduna, Benue states".
- Eggon_language speakers "140000".
- Eggon_language states Nigeria.
- Eggon_language wordnet_type synset-language-noun-1.
- Eggon_language subject Category:Languages_of_Nigeria.
- Eggon_language subject Category:Plateau_languages.
- Eggon_language type Abstraction100002137.
- Eggon_language type Communication100033020.
- Eggon_language type Language106282651.
- Eggon_language type LanguagesOfNigeria.
- Eggon_language type PlateauLanguages.
- Eggon_language type Language.
- Eggon_language type Language.
- Eggon_language type Language.
- Eggon_language type InformationEntity.
- Eggon_language comment "Eggon (also Egon, Ero, Mo Egon, Hill Mada, or Mada Eggon) is one of the Benue–Congo languages spoken in Nigeria.The Eggon language is spoken by a large number of people in Nassarawa State in Central Nigeria. These represent the modern Local Government Areas of Akwanga, Lafia and Nassarawa-Eggon. The main towns of the Eggon people are Nassarawa-Eggon, Kagbu and Wana. They stretch as far south as Lafia and west of Akwanga as far as the railway line.".
- Eggon_language label "Eggon language".
- Eggon_language label "Eggon".
- Eggon_language sameAs Eggon.
- Eggon_language sameAs m.0d46ld.
- Eggon_language sameAs Q35300.
- Eggon_language sameAs Q35300.
- Eggon_language sameAs Eggon_language.
- Eggon_language wasDerivedFrom Eggon_language?oldid=577272096.
- Eggon_language isPrimaryTopicOf Eggon_language.
- Eggon_language name "Eggon".