The survey team visited the Adara language group of Kachia, Kajuru and Paikoro
Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Kaduna and Niger States in Nigeria, from March 1st
to March 16th 2011. We did not visit Muya LGA because the dialect is the same as the
one spoken in Paikoro LGA. The Adara people are commonly called Kadara, especially by
outsiders. They are known to speak dialects of the Kadara language. The dialects are
Adara [kad], Ada [kad], Eneje [kad], Ajiya [idc] and Ekhwa [ikv]. The main goal of the
survey was to determine the most suitable dialect(s) that all speakers of Adara understand
and accept as the best for a standard written form of Adara that would serve all of them.
The survey team tested for intelligibility, interviewed different people and groups, gathered
words for checking lexical similarity and asked them about their potential support of a
language project. Our findings indicate that Adara may be developed to serve Adara, Ada
and Eneje, while Ajiya and Ekhwa may need separate literature. Alternatively, Ada may
also be developed to serve only Ada and Eneje, while Adara, Ajiya and Ekhwa may each
need separate literature.