Polci language

Polci
Polci
Barawa
Region	Bauchi State, Nigeria
Native speakers	(22,000 cited 1995)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic West Barawa (B.3) Zaar Polci Cluster Polci; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Zul (Mbarmi, Barma); Baram (Mbaram, Barang); Dir (Diir, Dra, Baram Dutse); Buli; Langas (Nyamzak, Lundur); Polci (Posa, Polshi, Palci); Luri;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously:; ldd – Luri; nzr – Dir-Nyamzak-Mbarimi; pze – Pesse; uly – Buli; zlu – Zul
Glottolog	nyam1284; buli1260; lund1276; polc1243; zull1239
ELP	Polci
	Luri

Polci (Pəlci, Posə) is an Afro-Asiatic language of Bauchi State, Nigeria. It is part of the Barawa cluster, which is in turn part of the West Chadic language family.

^ Shimizu, K. 1978: The Southern Bauchi Group of Chadic Languages: A Survey Report. In: Africana Marburgensia, Spec. iss. 25-49.
^ Luri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Dir-Nyamzak-Mbarimi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Pesse at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Buli at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Zul at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Endangered Languages Project data for Luri.
^ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.

Polci
Barawa^[1]
Region	Bauchi State, Nigeria
Native speakers	(22,000 cited 1995)^[2]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic West Barawa (B.3) Zaar Polci Cluster Polci
Dialects	Zul (Mbarmi, Barma) Baram (Mbaram, Barang) Dir (Diir, Dra, Baram Dutse) Buli Langas (Nyamzak, Lundur) Polci (Posa, Polshi, Palci) Luri
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: `ldd` – Luri `nzr` – Dir-Nyamzak-Mbarimi `pze` – Pesse `uly` – Buli `zlu` – Zul
Glottolog	`nyam1284` `buli1260` `lund1276` `polc1243` `zull1239`
ELP	Polci
	Luri^[3]