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Cipu (Cicipu) or Western Acipa is a Benue–Congo language spoken by about 20000 people in northwest Nigeria. The people call themselves Acipu.Like most Benue–Congo languages Cipu has a complex noun class system. 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.