They are distributed mostly throughout Taraba State, Nigeria and surrounding regions.

Their asymmetrical nasal consonants are atypical for West Africa, as can be seen in Wapan.

[3] The following classification is from Glottolog;[4] the Kororofa branch has been added from Ethnologue (Glottolog classifies the Kororofa languages as Jukun):[5] Ethnologue adds the Yukubenic branch of the Plateau languages as part of a Yukubenic-Kuteb group[5] based on Shimizu (1980), and Blench also follows this classification.

[7] Below is a list of language names, populations, and locations from Blench (2019).

Comparison of numerals in individual languages:[11] This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 3.0 license.