Social:Ajawa language

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Short description: Afro-Asiatic language
Ajawa
Native toNigeria
RegionBauchi State
Extinctca. 1930[1]
Afro-Asiatic
  • Chadic
    • West Chadic
      • Bade–Warji
        • Warji (B.2)
          • Ajawa
Language codes
ISO 639-3ajw
Glottologajaw1236[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][3]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/ajaw1236. 
  3. Blench, Roger (2012). An atlas of Nigerian languages. Cambridge, UK: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation. 

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