Warji language

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Warji, also called Warjawa or Sirzakwai, is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Bauchi State, Nigeria. About 75,000 people spoke it in 2022. It belongs to the West Chadic branch of Afro-Asiatic, in the Bade–Warji group of languages. The language uses the Latin alphabet. Its ISO code is wji. In Nigeria, many speakers are shifting to Hausa. Warji has a notably complex system for forming plural nouns, with a variety of suffixes (some variants of the same suffix) and sometimes nasal insertions. There are also suppletive (irregular) plural forms.