Gbagyi Nkwa is a variety of Gbagyi spoken in Rafi LGA of Niger State, which Roger Blench's Atlas of Nigerian Languages (2020) lists as a separate entry, with more than 50,000 speakers (1989 estimate); its speakers call it Gbagyi.
- Type
- Dialect
- Belongs to
- Gbagyi
- Glottocode
- gbag1257
Gbagyi Nkwa is a variety of Gbagyi spoken in Rafi LGA of Niger State, which Roger Blench's Atlas of Nigerian Languages (2020) lists as a separate entry, with more than 50,000 speakers (1989 estimate); its speakers call it Gbagyi. Glottolog lists it as Gbagyi Nkwa (gbag1257).
- An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (2020 edition) — Roger Blench, Kay Williamson Educational Foundation / McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, 2020 · link
- Glottolog language index (resourcemap) — Glottolog · link
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- Disputed: Credible sources or community accounts disagree; the differing accounts are noted.
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Archive ID: LANG-GBAGYI-NKWA · Last updated 7 October 2026.
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