classification: "Afro-Asiatic; Chadic; West Chadic",
dialect_varieties: "",
public_comment: "",
private_comment: null,
source_id:89800,
speakers: [
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id:30382,
code_id:10445,
speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "8,000",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
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older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "2003",
public_comment: "",
private_comment: null,
source_id:98328,
preferred:1,
},
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id:30383,
code_id:10445,
speaker_number: "10000-99999",
speaker_number_text: "20,000",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "1979",
public_comment: "“There is some non-linguistic, ethnographic material on the Pa'a to be found in Gunn and Temple…Their population estimates are at some variance with my own, indicating a decline from Temple's 1915 estimate of 10,010 to the Native Authority Tribal Census (Bauchi Division) of 1949- 50, which showed a Pa'a population of merely 2,236, though Gunn later admits that census to be highly inaccurate, probably limited to tax-paying adult males.”",
private_comment: null,
source_id:98441,
preferred: 0,
},
{
id:30384,
code_id:10445,
speaker_number: "10000-99999",
speaker_number_text: "20,000",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "1977",
public_comment: "8,500 (LA 1971); 20,000 (Skinner, 1977)",
private_comment: null,
source_id:98321,
preferred: 0,
},
{
id:30385,
code_id:10445,
speaker_number: "10000-99999",
speaker_number_text: "20,000",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "1977",
public_comment: "“Pa’a, called fuucəka by speakers of the language, is spoken by some 20,000 Nigerians concentrated in eight villages southeast of Ningi, Bauchi State."",
private_comment: null,
source_id:98438,
preferred: 0,
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id:30386,
code_id:10445,
speaker_number: "10000-99999",
speaker_number_text: "20,000",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "1974",
public_comment: "“The Pa’a language is a member of the North Bauchi Chadic group spoken by some 20,000 Nigerians in about eight villages to the south, east and west of Ningi, North East State."",