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Adara language

Plateau language spoken in central Nigeria

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ3914011 ↗
Source-derived summary

Adara (also Eda and Kadara), is a Central Plateau language spoken by Adara people of Kaduna state and Niger state of Nigeria. The name Adara is also used to refer to the ethnic group.

Some estimates place the population of the Adara people at around 500,000. About 80% of the Adara are Christians while some also adhere to Islam.

Distribution

Adara is spoken mainly in Kachia and Kajuru Local Government Areas as well as parts of Chikun and Kagarko of Kaduna state. In Paikoro and Munya local governments areas of Niger State in the Middle Belt region of Nigeria.

Dialects

Dialects of the Adara language include the Adara dialect, Eneje, Ada, Ekhwa, and Ajiya.

Blench (2019) lists Eda, Edra, and Enezhe as dialects.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Adara language” as plateau language spoken in central Nigeria. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Adara, language and Plateau.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Adara, language and Plateau providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3914011. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Adara language” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.