title: Shiroro languages
text: # Shiroro languages
  
  The Shiroro languages, also known as the Pongu languages, form a branch of the Kainji languages of Nigeria. They are spoken near Shiroro Lake.
  
  ## Languages
  
  There are four basic divisions within Shiroro:
  
  * Pongu (Rin) cluster, Gurmana
  * Baushi cluster, Fungwa (Ura)
  
  Baushi is a language that constitutes half a dozen languages.
  
  ## Footnotes
  
  * ↑ Blench, Roger (2012). "The Kainji languages of northwestern and central Nigeria" (PDF). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
  