The Bikwin–Jen or simply the Jen languages form a branch of the
Adamawa family. They are spoken in and around
Karim Lamido
Karim Lamido is a Local Government Area in Taraba State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Karim Lamido at .
It has an area of 6,620 km and a population of 195,844 at the 2006 census.
The southern border of Karim Lamido is the ...
LGA (to the north of
Jalingo LGA) in
Taraba State, and in other nearby states of eastern
Nigeria.
Bikwin-Jen may not necessarily be a coherent group. Due to the internal diversity of Bikwin-Jen, Guldemann (2018) suggests that Bikwin and Jen could form separate groups.
Classification
Norton & Othaniel (2020) and Norton (2019) refer to Bikwin–Jen simply as Jen. Kleinewillinghöfer (2015) uses the name Bikwin–Jen.
Kleinewillinghöfer (2015)
Kleinewillinghöfer (2015) classifies the Bikwin-Jen group as follows in the Adamawa Languages Project website.
[Kleinewillinghöfer, Ulrich. 2015]
Bikwin-Jen group
Adamawa Languages Project.
;Bikwin-Jen
*Bikwin
**Burak-Loo
***
Burak ʋʋrak***
Loo hʋŋɔ**Mak-Tal
***
Mak
Mak may refer to:
People
*Mak Dizdar (1917 - 1971), Bosnian poet
*Muhammad Arshad Khan, Pakistani painter popularly known as "MAK"
*Alan Mak (director) (born 1968), Hong Kong film director
*Alan Mak (politician) (born 1984), British Member of Par ...
(LeeMak)
****Panya
****Zoo
***
Maɣdi (Tala)
**Bikwin (proper)
***
Leelau (Munga Leelau)
***
Mɔɔ (Gomu)
***
Kya̰k (Bambuka)
*
Jen (Janjo)
**Dza
***
Dza (local variants)
***
Joole, Jaule
**
Munga Doso
**
Tha á
Norton & Othaniel (2020)
Classification of the Jen languages by Norton & Othaniel (2020):
Language names, ISO codes, and autonyms of the Jen languages (Norton & Othaniel 2020):
Norton & Othaniel (2020) also reconstruct more than 250 words for Proto-Jen.
Norton (2019)
Jen cluster classification according to Norton (2019):
*Jen
*Burak, Loo
*Maghdi, LeeMak
*Kyak-Moo-LeeLau (Munga LeeLau)
*Tha (Joole Manga)
*Doso-Dza (Munga Doso; Dza-Joole)
Language varieties that are part of the Jen cluster according to Norton (2019):
;Jen cluster
*Burak
*Loo of Galdemaru and Waamura
*Maghdi (Tala)
*Mak (LeeMak) of Panya and Zoo
*Kyãk (Bambuka)
*Moo (Gomu)
*LeeLau (Munga LeeLau)
*Munga Doso
*Dza (Jenjo) and Joole
*Tha (Joole Manga)
Names and locations
Below is a list of language names, populations, and locations from Blench (2019).
See also
*
Proto-Jen reconstructions (Wiktionary)
References
External links
Bikwin-Jen(Adamawa Languages Project)
Ɓəna-Mboi (Yungur) group(Adamawa Languages Project)
(AdaGram)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bikwin-Jen languages
Languages of Nigeria