Kariya or Vinahə (Vìnà Hə̀), is an Afroasiatic language spoken in a cluster of villages near the Stone Age archaeological site of Kariya Wuro in Ganjuwa LGA, Bauchi State, Nigeria.
[2] The Wiihə people have a highly rich and complex ritual culture that includes elaborate masquerades, a circumcision ceremony known as sár, a ritual calendar, and so on.
[2] Speakers live in the two main settlements of Kariya Gyada and Tulu.
The settlement of Dutsen Giwa used to have Vinahə speakers, but it is now Hausa-speaking.
[2] Wiihə clans and their respective founders and shrines:[2]