Ukaan
| Ukaan | ||
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Spoken in |
Nigeria | |
| speaker | 18,000 (in 1973) | |
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| ISO 639-3 |
kcf |
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Ukaan (also Ikan , Anyaran , Auga or Kakumo ) is a linguistically undocumented and sparsely described Niger-Congo language and dialect cluster with uncertain affiliation to a language group.
The name Anyaran comes from the city of Anyaran , where this language is spoken. Ukaan has several dialects that are drifting apart: Standard-Ikaan, Igau, Ayegbe (Iisheu), Iinno (Iyinno), which among each other are only poorly intelligible, comparable to German and Swiss German .
Linguists around Roger Blench assume, based on dictionaries of the language, that the language can be assigned to the (Eastern) Benue-Congo languages (or, equivalently, the most divergent of the Benue-Congo languages).
Individual evidence
- ^ Raymond G., Jr. (ed.) Gordon: Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition . SIL International . 2005. Retrieved April 3, 2009.
- ↑ HRELP - Projects . Retrieved April 3, 2009.