Ukaan language
| Ukaan | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Ondo State |
Native speakers | unknown (18,000 cited 1973)[1] |
| Dialects |
Ukaan proper
Igau
Ayegbe (Iisheu)
Iinno (Iyinno)
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
kcf |
| Glottolog |
ukaa1243[2] |
Ukaan (also Ikan, Anyaran, Auga, or Kakumo) is an undocumented and sparsely described Niger–Congo language or dialect cluster of uncertain affiliation.[3][4] Roger Blench suspects, based on wordlists, that it may be closest to the (East) Benue–Congo languages (or, equivalently, the most divergent of the Benue–Congo languages). Blench (2012) states that "noun-classes and concord make it look Benue-Congo, but evidence is weak."[5]
The name Anyaran is from the town of Anyaran, where it is spoken. Ukaan has several divergent dialects: Ukaan proper, Igau, Ayegbe (Iisheu), Iinno (Iyinno), which may only have one-way intelligibility in some cases.
References
- ↑ Ukaan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ukaan". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.) (2005). "Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition" (15th ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Retrieved 2009-04-03.
- ↑ "HRELP – Projects". Retrieved 2009-04-03.
- ↑ Roger Blench, Niger-Congo: an alternative view