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Info re Ron dialects

Phil Davison, Mon, 2022-08-01 14:51
Regarding: 
Dialects
ISO 639-3: 
cla

I worked on Ron back in 1984-6 (under NBTT), specifically on both the Daffo-Butura and Bokkos dialects.  Since then I have received information about further work from time to time.

Looking at the information for Ron recently, I noticed that the alternative names for these 2 dialects seem to be reversed.  Currently, the entry reads (with misplaced info underlined):

Run Daffo-Butura (Alis I Ron, Alis I Run, Batura), Run Bokkos (Bokos, Lis Ma Ron, Lis Ma Run), Shagau (Maleni, Manguna, Nafunfia, Shagawu).

The CORRECT entry should read:

Run Daffo-Butura (Lis Ma Ron, Lis Ma Run, Batura), Run Bokkos (Bokos, Alis I Ron, Alis I Run), Shagau (Maleni, Manguna, Nafunfia, Shagawu).

This has been confirmed by Matthew Harley (SIL Nigeria).

Editorial Action

We will correct the representation of the dialect names for Ron [cla] in Nigeria, both for the next edition and on the current website of the Ethnologue.

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