Ron (Run; also known as Challa, Chala) is an Afro-Asiatic language cluster spoken in Plateau State, Nigeria. Dialects include Bokkos, Daffo-Mbar-Butura (incl. Mangar), Monguna/Manguna (Shagau), (20,000 speakers). Blench (2006) considers these to be separate languages.Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List (ms)
Varieties Blench (2019) lists these language varieties in the Ron (Run) cluster:
Bokkos Mbar Daffo–Butura Manguna(Shagau) Mangar Sha Butura
Daffo-Mbar-Butura is spoken in Hottom, Maiduna, Hurum, Fanga, Kandik, Faram, Mandung, Mayi, and Josho villages.Blench, Roger M. 2003. Why reconstructing comparative Ron is so problematic. In Wolff, Ekkehard (ed.), Topics in Chadic linguistics: papers from the 1st biennial international colloquium on the Chadic language family (Leipzig, July 5-8, 2001), 21-42. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
Manguna (Shagau) is spoken in Manguna, Mahurum, Hurti, Gwande, Dambwash and Karfa
Curiosity Although modern Ron uses a decimal system, it is well attested that in the past a duodecimal counting system was used.Dr. Uwe Seibert, Summer Institute of Linguistics and University of Jos, Nigeria, March 1, 1999: Ron Numerals
Notes
References Uwe Seibert. 1998. Das ron von Daffo (Jos-Plateau, zentralnigeria): Morphologische, syntaktische und textlinguistische strukturen einer westtschadischen sprache. European University Series, Asian and African Studies 27. Berlin: Peter Lang.
External links Roger Blench, Ron Comparative Wordlist Roger Blench, Dictionary of Lis ma Run (Ron of Bokkos)