Northwest Kainji languages
The six Northwest Kainji languages, formerly known as Lela, are spoken near Kainji Lake on the Niger River in Nigeria. They are distinguishable from other Kainji languages by the reduction of their noun-class prefixes to single consonants.[2]
| Northwest Kainji | |
|---|---|
| Lela, Duka | |
| Geographic distribution | Nigeria |
| Linguistic classification | Niger–Congo
|
| Glottolog | duka1247[1] |
Classification
Blench (2018)
Northwest Kainji classification by Blench (2018):[3]
- ? Damakawa
- (node)
The position of Damakawa is uncertain.
Blench (2010)
In Blench (2010), Lela (C'lela and Ribah) is divergent from the other languages, though poorly attested Damakawa has similarities.[2]
- Lela (C'lela), ? Damakawa
- (node)
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- ut-Ma'in (Fakai), Hun-Saare (Duka)
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References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Northwestern Kainji". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Roger Blench, 2010, The Northwest Kainji languages
- Blench, Roger M. 2018. Nominal affixing in the Kainji languages of northwestern and central Nigeria. In John R. Watters (ed.), East Benue-Congo: Nouns, pronouns, and verbs, 59–106. Berlin: Language Science Press. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1314323
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