• Defaka is an endangered and divergent Nigerian language of uncertain classification. It is spoken in the Opobo–Nkoro LGA of Rivers State, in the Defaka...
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  • Defaka may refer to: the Defaka people the Defaka language This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Defaka. If an internal link...
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  • of languages linking the Ijaw languages (Ịjọ) with the endangered Defaka language. The similarities, however, may be due to Ijaw influence on Defaka. The...
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  • primary language, even when talking with other Defaka speakers. At most 200 speakers of Defaka are left, mostly elderly people; as such, the language may...
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  • is an Ijaw language spoken by about 4,500 ethnic Nkọrọọ in Rivers State, Nigeria. Nkọrọọ has significantly influenced the Defaka language. Nkọrọọ at Ethnologue...
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    Atlantic–Congo languages. The non-Atlantic–Congo languages within Niger–Congo are grouped as Dogon, Mande, Ijo (sometimes with Defaka as Ijoid), Katla...
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  • in Port Harcourt and the local government areas of Okrika and Ogu–Bolo. Defaka word list (Wiktionary) Kalabari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription...
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  • considered a distinct branch of the Niger–Congo family (perhaps along with Defaka in a group called Ijoid). They are notable for their subject–object–verb...
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    Ijoid languages are spoken across the Niger Delta region and include Ịjọ (Ijaw), Kalabari, Engenni and the intriguing remnant language Defaka. The Engenni...
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    additional possibilities: Defaka (Nigeria) Dompo (Ghana) Below is a list of language isolates and otherwise unclassified languages in Africa, from Vossen...
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  • First Nations, in Canada Athletics Federation of Nigeria Defaka language, a Nigerian language Asian Food Network, Southeast Asian pay television channel...
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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 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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    investigation. Defaka and Ega are highly divergent languages located within Niger–Congo-speaking areas, and may also possibly be language isolates. Current...
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  • An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...
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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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    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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    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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  • for this grammatical category. A few languages with gender-specific pronouns, such as English, Afrikaans, Defaka, Khmu, Malayalam, Tamil, and Yazgulyam...
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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 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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  • (also Ikan, Anyaran, Auga, or Kakumo) is a poorly described Niger–Congo language or dialect cluster of uncertain affiliation.Roger Blench suspects, based...
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    Yoruboid is a language family composed of the Igala group of dialects spoken in south central Nigeria, and the Edekiri group spoken in a band across Togo...
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  • Igboid languages constitute a branch of the Volta–Niger language family. The subgroups are: Ekpeye Nuclear Igboid: Igbo, Ikwerre, Ika, Izii–Ikwo–Ezza–Mgbo...
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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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  • boy, pot, broom...). In this language, feminine nouns are always marked with -e or -in. Another African language, Defaka, has three genders: one for all...
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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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    of the Dagaare language are also found in Cameroon. The Samu languages of Burkina Faso are Gur languages. Like most Niger–Congo languages, the ancestor...
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  • The Ubangian languages form a diverse linkage of some seventy languages centered on the Central African Republic and the DR Congo. They are the predominant...
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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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