Ron languages

The Ron, Ronic or Ron–Fyer languages, group A.4 of the West Chadic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family, are spoken in Plateau State, north-central Nigeria.

[1] The Ron languages, and their tentative relationships, are:[2][3] Blench (2019)[4] groups the following in the (Central) Ron/Run dialect cluster: Bokkos, Mbar, Daffo–Butura, Manguna, Mangar, Sha.

While noting that Ron is in fact a complex linkage, Blench (2003) rejects two of the connections proposed in Seibert (1998) [Sha with Mundat–Karfa and Mangar with Kulere/Richa]:[5] Below is a comprehensive list of Ron language names, populations, and locations from Blench (2019).

There are many borrowings from neighbouring Niger-Congo Plateau languages that Ron had assimilated or been in contact with.

[2] Plurals of nouns in Ron languages are typically formed with -a- infixes.

Main Chadic-speaking peoples in Nigeria