Eloyi, ko Afu (Afo), yaren Plateau ne na rashin tabbas. Al'ummar Eloyi ne na karamar hukumar Agatu da karamar hukumar Otukpo ta jihar Benue da kuma jihar Nassarawa a Najeriya ke magana.

Eloyi
Afu
Asali a Nigeria
Yanki Benue State, Nassarawa State
'Yan asalin magana
100,000 (2021)e25
Lamban rijistar harshe
ISO 639-3 afo
Glottolog eloy1241[1]

Armstrong (1955, 1983) ya rarraba Eloyi a matsayin Idomoid, amma wannan ganewar ya dogara ne akan jerin kalmomi guda ɗaya kuma Armstrong daga baya ya nuna shakku. Duk sauran asusun farko sun sanya shi a matsayin Plateau, kuma Blench (2008) ya bar shi a matsayin wani reshe na Plateau daban.

Blench (2007) [2] ya ɗauki Eloyi a matsayin yaren Plateau daban-daban wanda ya sami tasirin Idomoid, maimakon akasin haka.

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Eloyi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Blench, Roger. 2007. The Eloyi language of Central Nigeria and its affinities.

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