Yukubenic languages

Yukubenic
Geographic
distribution		 Nigeria
Linguistic classification

Niger–Congo

Glottolog yuku1243[1]

The Yukubenic languages (or Oohum languages[2]) are a branch of the Plateau family spoken in southeastern Nigeria. Ethnologue, however, places Yukubenic in the Jukunoid family,[3] based on Shimizu (1980), and Blench also follows this classification.[4]

Classification

The Yukubenic languages are are:

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Yukuben". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. ↑ Roger Blench (15 November 2005). "Is there a boundary between Plateau and Jukunoid? (PDF Download Available)". ResearchGate. p. 3, 5. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
  3. ↑ "Jukunoid". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
  4. ↑ Roger Blench (15 November 2005). "Is there a boundary between Plateau and Jukunoid? (PDF Download Available)". ResearchGate. p. 3, 5. Retrieved 2017-07-26.


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