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
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Niger-Congo
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Volta Congo
- South Volta Congo
- Benue Congo
- East Benue Congo
- Platoid
- Kainji
- Northwest plateau
- Central plateau
- Southeast plateau
- South plateau
- Tarocoid
- Jukunoid
- Platoid
- East Benue Congo
- Benue Congo
- South Volta Congo
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Volta Congo
Internal classification
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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
- Jukun Wurbo
See also
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.