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Jan Awei language

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Jan Awei
Native toNigeria
RegionGombe State
Native speakers
(12? cited 1997)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologjana1236

Jan Awei is a moribund Jukunoid language[2] of Nigeria. It had around 12 speakers in 1997 and was spoken in an area west of the Muri Mountains in the far south of Gombe State, however the precise location is unknown.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Roger Blench (3 December 2012). "An Atlas of Nigerian Languages" (PDF). p. 42. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  2. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). "Jan-Awei". Glottolog . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.