The Yukubenic languages (or Oohum languages ) are a branch of either the Jukunoid family or the Plateau family spoken in southeastern Nigeria . Glottolog places Yukubenic in the Plateau family. Ethnologue , however, places Yukubenic in the Jukunoid family, based on Shimizu (1980), and Blench also follows this classification.
5-546: The Yukubenic languages are: Below is a list of language names, populations, and locations from Blench (2019). This article about Plateau languages is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Plateau languages The forty or so Plateau languages are a tentative group of Benue–Congo languages spoken by 15 million people on the Jos Plateau , Southern Kaduna , Nasarawa State and in adjacent areas in central Nigeria . Berom and Eggon have
10-712: Is a presumed Plateau language once spoken in Nince Village, Kaduna State, but its place within the Plateau branch cannot be ascertained due to the lack of linguistic data. In 2005, there was only one speaker of Nisam. Proto-Plateau nominal prefixes: Only some of the languages have nominal classes, as the Bantu languages have, where in others these have eroded. In many Plateau languages, many CV- prefixes have become fossilised, replaced by V- prefixes, or disappeared altogether. The large numbers of consonants in many languages
15-414: Is more internally diverse than all of West Chadic A3 . Little work has been done on the Plateau languages, and the results to date are tentative. Blench (2018:112) gives the following classification of the Plateau languages. The following classification is taken from Blench (2008). Most of the branches are discrete constituents, though Central is a residual grouping and there are doubts about some of
20-554: The most speakers. Most Plateau languages are threatened and have around 2,000-10,000 speakers. Defining features of the Plateau family have only been published in manuscript form (Blench 2008). Many of the languages have highly elaborate phonology systems that make comparison with poor data difficult. Below is a list of major Plateau branches and their primary locations (centres of diversity) based on Blench (2019). The Plateau languages are highly typologically and lexically diverse. For instance, Roger Blench (2022) notes that Beromic
25-644: The purported Ninzic languages . Plateau languages as a whole share a number of isoglosses, as do all branches apart from Tarokoid . Glottolog adds the Yukubenic languages . Blench, however, places Yukubenic in the Jukunoid family , following Shimizu (1980). Classification of Plateau languages by Gerhardt (1983), based on Maddieson (1972): Note: Plateau 1 languages, consisting of Plateau 1a and 1b, are now classified separately as Kainji languages . List of Plateau languages given by Blench (2018): Nisam
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