| Jju | |
|---|---|
| Kaje | |
| Diryem Jju | |
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Kaduna State |
Native speakers | 600,000 (2020) [1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kaj |
| Glottolog | jjuu1238 |
| Jju [2] | |
|---|---|
| People | Ba̠jju |
| Language | Jju |
| Country | Ka̠jju |
Jju (Tyap : Jhyuo; Hausa : Kaje, Kache) is the native language of the Bajju people of Kaduna State in central Nigeria. As of 1988, there were approximately 300,000 speakers. [1] Jju is one of the Southern Kaduna languages. [1] [3] Although usually listed separately from the Tyap cluster, Jju's separation, according to Blench R.M. (2018), seems to be increasingly ethnic rather than a linguistic reality. [4]
Jju is spoken as a first language by the Bajju people in Zangon Kataf, Jema'a, Kachia, Kaura and Kaduna South Local Government Areas of Kaduna state. It is also spoken in neighbouring Atyap, Fantswam, Agworok, Ham, Adara, and other kin communities as a second or third language.[ citation needed ]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | u |
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| Open | a |
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labial–velar | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | plain | m | n | ŋ | |||||||
| tense | mː | nː | ŋː | ||||||||
| Stop | plain | p | b | t | d | k | ɡ | k͡p | ɡ͡b | ||
| tense | pː | bː | tː | dː | kː | ɡː | |||||
| Affricate | plain | p͡f | b͡v | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||
| tense | p͡fː | b͡vː | t͡sː | d͡zː | t͡ʃː | d͡ʒː | |||||
| Fricative | plain | f | s | ʃ | |||||||
| tense | fː | sː | ʃː | ||||||||
| Rhotic | tap | ɾ | |||||||||
| tense | ɾː | ||||||||||
| trill | r | ||||||||||
| Approximant | labial | ʍ | w | ɥ̊ | ɥ | ||||||
| lab. tense | ʍː | wː | ɥ̊ː | ɥː | |||||||
| central | j̊ | j | |||||||||
| tense | jː | ||||||||||
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| Numeral | Jju word |
|---|---|
| 1 | A̠yring |
| 2 | A̠hwa |
| 3 | A̠tat |
| 4 | A̠naai |
| 5 | A̠pfwon |
| 6 | A̠kitat |
| 7 | A̠tiyring |
| 8 | A̠ninai |
| 9 | A̠kumbvuyring |
| 10 | Swak |
| 11 | Swak bu a̠yring |
| 12 | Swak bu a̠hwa |
| 13 | Swak bu a̠tat |
| 14 | Swak bu a̠naai |
| 15 | Swak bu a̠pfwon |
| 16 | Swak bu a̠kitat |
| 17 | Swak bu a̠tiyring |
| 18 | Swak bu a̠ninai |
| 19 | Swak bu a̠kumbvuyring |
| 20 | Nswak nh |
| 30 | Nswak ntat |
| 40 | Nswak nnaai |
| 50 | Nswak npfwon |
| 60 | Nswak a̠kitat |
| 70 | Nswak a̠tiyring |
| 80 | Nswak a̠ninai |
| 90 | Nswak a̠kumbvuyring |
| 100 | Cyi |
| 1000 | Cyikwop |
List of vocabulary relating to body parts. [10]
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