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Cipu (''Cicipu''), or Western Acipa, is a Benue–Congo language spoken by about 20,000 people in northwest Nigeria. The people call themselves ''Acipu''. Like most Benue–Congo languages, Cipu has a complex noun class system.〔McGill, Stuart. 2007. The Cipu noun class system. Journal of West African Languages, 34(2), 51-90.〕 It has a fairly complex phonology with lexical and grammatical tone, vowel harmony, and nasalisation. Cipu speakers virtually all speak the lingua franca Hausa. Many also speak other nearby languages. ==Classification== Cipu is part of the Kambari cluster of the West Kainji family of the Niger–Congo languages. The most recent published classification〔Williamson, Kay and Roger M. Blench. 2000. Niger–Congo in African languages: an introduction, 11-42. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.〕 has Cipu as part of the Kamuku group of West Kainji along with Eastern Acipa. However more detailed studies〔Dettweiler, Steve and Sonia Dettweiler. 2002. (Sociolinguistic survey (level one) of the Kamuku language cluster [Originally written in 1992]. ).〕〔McGill, Stuart. 2007. (The classification of Cicipu. Unpublished manuscript. ).〕 have shown this to be unlikely. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cipu language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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