Chakato language

Chakato (Jakato [ʒàkàtɔ̀]) is a West Chadic language spoken in Plateau State, Nigeria. It was identified by Roger Blench in 2016.[1] It is spoken by about 500 people in one village, Dokan Tofa, which is located on the Jos-Shendam road in Plateau State. Blench (2017) suggests that Chakato may be related to spurious records of the Jorto language. Chakato speakers claim that their language is closely related to Goemai.[1]

Chakato
Jakato; Jorto
Native toNigeria
RegionPlateau State
Native speakers
500 (2016)[1]
Afro-Asiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3jrt
Glottologjort1240[2]

Jakato is spoken in Dokan Tofa town and nearby villages in southern Plateau State. Dokan Tofa town is situated about 50 km north of Shendam.[3]

Jorto

Jorto is a putative Afro-Asiatic language claimed to be spoken in Plateau State, Nigeria, and is currently listed in Ethnologue. It was introduced in an ethnographic study by C. G. Ames in 1934.[4] It has now been retired by Glottolog, based on fieldwork evidence presented by Roger Blench that suggests that there is no independent evidence that Jorto ever existed.[5][6] However, a request to retire Jorto's ISO 639-3 jrt code is rejected because a team in Nigeria surveyed a region, that although they call their language as "Jakattoe", the "Jorto" is used by a neighboring people group.[7]

References
  1. Blench, Roger. 2017. Current research on the A3 West Chadic languages.
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Jorto". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Blench, Roger (2019). "Jakato: an undocumented language of Central Nigeria".
  4. Ames, C. G. (1934). Gazeteer of the Plateau Province, Nigeria.
  5. Blench, Roger (28 September 2016). "Five unexpected Chadic languages and the sorry tale of Jorto" (Presentation). Leiden: Paper presented at CALL.
  6. Blench, Roger. 2017. Current research on the A3 West Chadic languages.
  7. "Comments received for ISO 639-3 Change Request 2019-023" (PDF). 2020-05-15. Retrieved 2020-05-31.

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