• Ayere (Uwu) is a divergent Volta–Niger language of Nigeria, closely related only to Ahaan. It is named after Ayere village in Ijumu LGA, Kogi State. The...
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  • The Ayere–Ahan languages are a pair of languages of southwestern Nigeria, Ayere and Àhàn (or Ahaan), that form an independent branch of the Volta–Niger...
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    for the date. There are several small language groupings in the Niger Confluence area, notably Ukaan, Akpes, Ayere-Ahan and Ọkọ, whose inclusion in these...
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  • also stylized UwU, an emoticon indicating cuteness Uwu language, also known as the Ayere language United Workers Union, an Australian trade union Uva Wellassa...
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    The number of languages natively spoken in Africa is variously estimated (depending on the delineation of language vs. dialect) at between 1,250 and 2...
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  • Afin-Akoko. Languages of Akoko North–West LGA: Yoruba language Akoko language Akpes language (Àbèsàbèsì) Ayere-Ahan languages Ahan language Ayere language Prince...
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  • Ede languages including the Yoruba). The language was closely related to the ancestor of the Akoko language (Proto-Akokoid) and Ayere-Ahan languages, where...
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    Department of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages, University of Port Harcourt. Blench, Roger. 2007. The Ayere and Ahan languages of Central Nigeria and their affinities...
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  • insufficient by Güldemann (2018). The Defoid language group consists of three branches, Yoruboid, Akoko and Ayere-Ahan. Pozdniakov, Konstantin (31 August 2018)...
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    Yoruboid language is Itsekiri (about 1,000,000 speakers). The Yoruboid group is a branch of Defoid, which also includes the Akoko and Ayere-Ahan languages. The...
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    Ijumu (section Languages)
    local Volta–Niger languages spoken in Ijumu LGA are: Ukaan language Akpes language (Abesabesi) Ahan language Ayere language Akoko language (Arigidi) Smart...
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  • Consciously devised language Endangered language – Language that is at risk of going extinct Ethnologue#Language families Extinct language – Language that no longer...
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    The Atlantic–Congo languages are the largest demonstrated family of languages in Africa. They have characteristic noun class systems and form the core...
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  • Aahan (Ààhàn) is a divergent Volta–Niger language of Nigeria, closely related only to Ayere. According to Ethnologue, Ahan is spoken in: Ekiti state: Ekiti...
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    The Kwa languages, often specified as New Kwa, are a proposed but as-yet-undemonstrated family of languages spoken in the south-eastern part of Ivory...
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    in Kogi State Idomoid: group of languages of central Nigeria, including Idoma with 1 to 2 million speakers (2010s) Ayere-Ahan (moribund or extinct) Benue–Congo...
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    The Mande languages (Mandén, Manding; [needs IPA]) are a group of languages spoken in several countries in West Africa by the Mandé peoples. They include...
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    The Bantu languages (English: UK: /ˌbænˈtuː/, US: /ˈbæntuː/ Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a language family of about 600 languages that are spoken by the Bantu...
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    The Kru languages are spoken by the Kru people from the southeast of Liberia to the west of Ivory Coast. According to Güldemann (2018), Kru lacks sufficient...
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  • Senegambian languages, traditionally known as the Northern West Atlantic, or in more recent literature sometimes confusingly as the Atlantic languages, are a...
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    250 languages, with some accounts reporting around 600. These include 55 Afro-Asiatic languages, two Nilo-Saharan languages, four Ubangian languages, and...
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  • The Gbaya languages, also known as Gbaya–Manza–Ngbaka, are a family of perhaps a dozen languages spoken mainly in the western Central African Republic...
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  • The Ngbandi language is a dialect continuum of the Ubangian family spoken by a half-million or so people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Ngbandi proper)...
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    The Cross River or Delta–Cross languages are a branch of the Benue–Congo language family spoken in south-easternmost Nigeria, with some speakers in south-westernmost...
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    Kordofan region of Sudan: Talodi–Heiban languages, Lafofa languages, Rashad languages, Katla languages and Kadu languages. The first four groups are sometimes...
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    Atlantic languages (also the Atlantic languages or North Atlantic languages) of West Africa are a major subgroup of the Niger–Congo languages. The Atlantic...
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    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...
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    The Gbe languages (pronounced [ɡ͡bè]) form a cluster of about twenty related languages stretching across the area between eastern Ghana and western Nigeria...
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    language family. It consists of the Northern Bantoid languages and the Southern Bantoid languages, a division which also includes the Bantu languages...
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  • semi-Bantu language that is spoken in Cameroon by the Tikar people, as well as by the Bedzan Pygmies, who speak their own dialect of the language. A recent...
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