Etkywan language

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Etkywan
Icen
Native to Nigeria
Region Taraba
Native speakers
50,000 (2000) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ich
Glottolog etky1238 [2]

Etkywan (Etekwe), or Icen (Itchen), also known as Kentu or Nyidu, is a Jukunoid language of Nigeria.

Nigeria Federal republic in West Africa

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Niger in the north, Chad in the northeast, Cameroon in the east, and Benin in the west. Its coast in the south is located on the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean. The federation comprises 36 states and 1 Federal Capital Territory, where the capital, Abuja, is located. The constitution defines Nigeria as a democratic secular country.

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Jukunoid languages

The Jukunoid languages are a branch of the Central Nigerian languages spoken by the Jukun and related peoples of Nigeria and Cameroon.

References

  1. Etkywan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Etkywan". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.