Jan Awei language

Jan Awei
Jan Awei
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Gombe State
Native speakers	(12? cited 1997)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Jukunoid Central Jukun Jan Awei; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	jana1236

Last updated December 17, 2025

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

1 2 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.
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Jan-Awei". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[:0-1] 1 2 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. (2017). "Jan-Awei". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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