Jukunoid languages

The jukunoiden languages (short Jukunoid ) form a sub-unit of platoiden languages , a branch of the Benue-Congo , in turn, to the Niger-Congo belong.

The 20 or so jukunoid languages ​​are spoken by around 350,000 people in northeastern Nigeria . Jukun was the language of the once powerful Jukun empire (end of the 1st millennium AD), its successor languages ​​are the jukunoid languages. The most important modern jukunoid languages ​​are Wapan (100,000 speakers), Tigon Mbembe, Icen and Kutep with around 50,000 speakers each. Other languages ​​are on the verge of extinction, according to prayer in Nigeria.

Position of the Jukunoid within the Niger-Congo

• Niger-Congo
  • Volta Congo
    • South Volta Congo
      • Benue Congo
        • East Benue Congo
          • Platoid
            • Kainji
            • Northwest plateau
            • Central plateau
            • Southeast plateau
            • South plateau
            • Tarocoid
            • Jukunoid

Internal classification

• Jukunoid
  • Jukun Wurbo
    • Jukun: Jukun Takum (40 thousand), Jibu (30 thousand), Wase (2 thousand)
    • Mbembe: Tigon-Mbembe (60 thousand)
    • Kororofa: Wapan (Wukari) (100 thousand), Abinsi (3 thousand), Kona (2 thousand)
    • Wurbo: Bandawa-Minda-Kunini (10 thousand), Como Karim , Jiru, Tita
  • Kpan-Icen: Icen (50 thousand), Kpan
  • Yukuben-Kutep: Kutep (50 thousand), Yukuben (15 thousand), Kapya

See also

• East Benue Congo
• Platoid languages

literature

• 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: Ludwig Gerhardt: Kainji and Platoid.

Web links

• Detailed language maps of Nigeria
• Ernst Kausen, The Classification of the Jukunoid Languages ​​within the Niger-Congo. (DOC; 232 kB)