Yukubenic languages

Yukubenic
Geographic
distribution		 Nigeria
Linguistic classification Niger–Congo
Glottolog yuku1243[1]

The Yukubenic languages (or Oohum languages)[2] are a branch of either the Jukunoid family or the Plateau family spoken in southeastern Nigeria. Glottolog places Yukubenic in the Plateau family.[3] Ethnologue, however, places Yukubenic in the Jukunoid family,[4] based on Shimizu (1980), and Blench also follows this classification.[2]

Classification

The Yukubenic languages are:

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yukuben". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. 1 2 Roger Blench (15 November 2005). "Is there a boundary between Plateau and Jukunoid? (PDF Download Available)". ResearchGate. pp. 3, 5. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
  3. ↑ "Glottolog 3.0 - Yukubenic". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2017-08-14.
  4. ↑ "Jukunoid". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2017-07-26.


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