Dakoid languages

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The Dakoid languages ( Dakoid for short ) form a small sub-unit of the northern bantoid languages , a branch of the Benue-Congo languages , which in turn belong to the Niger-Congo .

The three dacoid languages ​​are spoken by about 120,000 people in eastern Nigeria in the Taraba and Adamawa states . The most important language is the Samba Daka dialect continuum with 110,000 speakers.

Classification of the Dakoid within the Niger-Congo

  • Niger-Congo > Volta-Congo> Benue-Congo> East-Benue-Congo> Bantoid-Cross> Bantoid> North-Bantoid> Dakoid

The dacoid languages

  • Dakoid
    • Samba Daka (Chamba Daka) (110k)
      • Dialects: Samba Daka, Samba Jangani, Samba Nnankenyare, Mapeo Samba, Taram, Dirim, Lamja-Dengsa-Tola
    • Dong (Donga) (5k)
    • Gaa (Tiba) (10 th.)

Some researchers consider the Lamja-Dengsa-Tola dialect group to be a separate language.

See also

literature

  • Joseph Greenberg: The Languages ​​of Africa. Mouton, The Hague and Indiana University Center, Bloomington 1963.
  • Bernd Heine and others (ed.): The languages ​​of Africa. Buske, Hamburg 1981.
  • Bernd Heine and Derek Nurse (eds.): African Languages. An Introduction. Cambridge University Press 2000.
    In it: Kay Williamson and Roger Blench: Niger-Congo.
  • John Bendor-Samuel (Ed.): The Niger-Congo Languages: A Classification and Description of Africa's Largest Language Family. University Press of America, Lanham, New York, London 1989.
    Therein: Robert Hedinger: Northern Bantoid.
  • Patrick Bennett and Jan Sterk: South Central Niger-Congo: A Reclassification. Studies in African Linguistics. 1977.

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