Jarawoide languages

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The Jarawoid languages ( Jarawoid for short ) form a sub-unit of the southern Bantoid languages , a branch of the Benue-Congo languages , which in turn belong to the Niger-Congo .

The 15 jarawoid languages ​​are spoken by around 300,000 people in mainly eastern Nigeria and a few northern Cameroon . The most important language is the Jarawa with 150,000 speakers.

Position of the Jarawoiden languages ​​within the Niger-Congo

  • Niger-Congo > Volta-Congo> Benue-Congo> East-Benue-Congo> Bantoid-Cross> Bantoid> South-Bantoid> Mbam> Jarawoid

Classification of the Jarawoiden languages

  • Jarawoid
    • Nigeria group
      • Jarawa (150 thousand)   dialects: Bankal, Ligri, Kanam, Bobar, Gingwak
      • Bile (30 thousand), Duguri (20 thousand), Bada (10 thousand), Lame (10 thousand), Kantana (20 thousand), Kulung (15 thousand), Mbula-Bwazza (40 thousand)
      • Labir (Jaku), Shiki (Guba), Dulbu, Gwa
    • Cameroon group

See also

literature

  • Bernd Heine and others (ed.): The languages ​​of Africa. Buske, Hamburg 1981.
  • Joseph Greenberg: The Languages ​​of Africa. Mouton, The Hague and Indiana University Center, Bloomington 1963.
  • 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: John R. Watters and Jacqueline Leroy: Southern Bantoid.
  • Patrick Bennett and Jan Sterk: South Central Niger-Congo: A Reclassification. Studies in African Linguistics. 1977.

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