Jan Awei language

Jan Awei
Native to Nigeria
Region Gombe State
Native speakers
12? (1997)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Glottolog jana1236[2]

Jan Awei is a moribund Jukunoid language of Nigeria. It had around 12 speakers in 1997 and was spoken in an area West of the Muri Mountains in the far South of Gombe State, however the precise location is unknown.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Roger Blench (3 December 2012). "An Atlas of Nigerian Languages" (PDF). p. 42.
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Jan-Awei". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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