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Title:Ten more wordlists with analyses from the Northern Jos group of plateau languages
Author:Shimizu, Kiyoshi
Year:1982
Periodical:Afrika und Übersee: Sprachen, Kulturen
Volume:65
Issue:1
Pages:97-134
Language:English
Geographic term:Northern Nigeria
Subject:Plateau languages
Abstract:For the linguistic survey of (former) Benue-Plateau State and Bauchi State, Nigeria, carried out between December 1973 and February 1975, the author made an effort to collect a Swadesb first 100-word list from all the speech forms belonging to the Northern Jos Group of Plateau languages. The first five wordlists from this survey have been published with analyses in Afrika und Übersee 62 (1979/80), 4, p. 253-271. The remaining ten wordlists with analyses and a map showing the distribution of these languages are presented in this article: VI. (è-) Zèlle; VII. Sheeni; VIII. Zìriya; IX. Gànà; X. (ì-) Siì; XI. -Tàkàyà; XII. (lì-) Shau; XIII. (ì-) Gyem; XIV. (tì-) Gamo; XV. Kudu. Map, notes.
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