Ajawa language

Ajawa
Native to Nigeria
Region Bauchi State
Extinct ca. 1930[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ajw
Glottolog ajaw1236[2]

Ajawa is an extinct Afro-Asiatic language formerly spoken in Bauchi State, Nigeria. Ajawa became extinct between 1920 and 1940 as speakers switched to Hausa.[1]

Notes

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


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