Open AccessThe East Kainji languages of Central Nigeria
Author(s) -
Roger Blench
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
afrika und übersee
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2749-0971
pISSN - 0002-0427
DOI - 10.15460/auue.2020.93.1.210
Subject(s) - prefix , scholarship , linguistics , noun , phonology , computer science , geography , political science , artificial intelligence , philosophy , law
The paper is an overview of current scholarship on the East Kainji language group of Central Nigeria. It reviews the existing published and manuscript sources and describes recent research, as well as the development of orthographies for some languages. Many East Kainji languages are severely threatened and some have gone extinct within the period under review. The paper presents an internal classification of the group and briefly discusses the external relationships of these languages. On the basis of existing data, a review of the basic phonology and noun class prefix systems is given.