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Hyam or Jabba is a regionally important dialect cluster of Plateau languages in Nigeria. Hyam of Nok is the prestige dialect. Blench (2008) treats it Sait and Dzar as distinct languages and notes that Yaat and Ankun may also be separate.

ISO 639-3 code
jab
family
Benue–Congo languages, Plateau languages, Central Plateau languages, Atlantic–Congo languages
spoken in
Nigeria, Kaduna State

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