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Goemai is an Afro-Asiatic (Chadic West Chadic A) language spoken in the Plateau state of Central Nigeria by approximately 200000 people. Its speakers refer to themselves and their language as ‘Goemai'; in older linguistic historical and ethnographical literature the term ‘Ankwe’ has been used to refer to the people. Goemai is a predominantly isolating language with the subject–verb–object constituent order.