Ajja Jhala
There are two languages called Aja: * Aja language (Niger-Congo), part of the Gbe dialect continuum, spoken in Benin and Togo * Aja language (Nilo-Saharan), spoken in South Sudan See also *Aja (other) Aja or AJA may refer to: Acronyms * AJ Auxerre, a French football club *Ajaccio Napoleon Bonaparte Airport's IATA airport code * Al Jazeera America, an American news channel * American Jewish Archives *''American Journal of Archaeology'' *, a Ge ...

Aja Language (Niger-Congo)
The Aja language is a Gbe language spoken by the Aja people of Benin, Togo, Ghana, Nigeria and Gabon. In Gabon, they are mostly migrants. it is closely related to other Gbe languages The Gbe languages (pronounced ) form a cluster of about twenty related languages stretching across the area between eastern Ghana and western Nigeria. The total number of speakers of Gbe languages is between four and eight million. The most widel ... such as Ewe, Mina, Fon, and Phla Phera. Phonology Consonants * Voiced consonants /, , / are heard as nasal sonorant sounds , when followed by a nasal vowel. * // is heard as a rhotic trill [] when after alveolar, retroflex or post-alveolar consonants. * Sounds // and // are heard as post-alveolar [], [] when preceding //. * Approximant sounds /, / may also be nasalized as [, ] when preceding or following nasal vowels. * Some linguists have also attested the nasal sound [], and labialized uvular sounds, [] and [], as separate phonemes. ...
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Aja Language (Nilo-Saharan)
Aja is a Central Sudanic language spoken in the southern South Sudanese province of Bahr el Ghazal and along the South Sudanese border in the Central African Republic. Although the Aja are ethnically Kresh, their language is unintelligible to other Kresh languages Kresh is a small language group of South Sudan. It is generally considered to be a branch of the Central Sudanic languages. Boyeldieu (2010) judges that this has yet to be demonstrated satisfactorily, but Starostin (2016) finds convincing eviden .... It is largely Banda in vocabulary, though it remains Kresh in structure. Most members of the tribe are bilingual in Kresh. Alternate spellings are Adja and Ajja. References Central Sudanic languages Languages of South Sudan Languages of the Central African Republic Kresh languages {{CentralAfricanRepublic-stub ...
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