Alternate Names: Arringeu, Pongo, Pongu, Tarin
Dialects: Tarin, Waga. Lexical similarity: 94%–99% among dialects.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 30,000 (2003 SIL).
Language Use: All domains. All ages. Positive attitudes. Also use English [eng], Hausa [hau].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 0%. Many children and adults are literate in Hausa [hau] or English [eng]. Videos.
Typology: SVO; prepositions; noun classes, noun head initial, question words phrase initial, tense-aspect morphemes precede verb root, verb root suffixes for tense and iterative forms; 25 consonant phonemes, 38 vowel phonemes; 2 tones.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Nigeria
Other Comments: Sister exchange pattern in marriage (now rarely practiced). Muslim, traditional religion.