The Dakoid languages are a branch of the
Northern Bantoid languages
Northern Bantoid (or North Bantoid) is a branch of the Bantoid languages. It consists of the Mambiloid, Dakoid, and Tikar languages of eastern Nigeria and west-central Cameroon.
History
A proposal that divided Bantoid into North and South Banto ...
spoken in
Taraba Taraba can refer to:
* Taraba State
* Taraba River
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The major towns along the River Tar ...
and
Adamawa states of eastern
Nigeria
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.
Languages
*Gaa–Dong
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Donga (Dong)
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Gaa (Tiba)
*Daka–Taram
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Taram
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Daka (a
dialect cluster
A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually intelligible, but the differences accumulate over distance so that widely separated varie ...
of Dirim, Samba, Lamja, Dengsa, and Tola).
Classification
Greenberg placed Samba Daka (Daka) within his
Adamawa proposal, as group G3, but Bennett (1983) demonstrated to general satisfaction that it is a
Benue–Congo language, though its placement within Benue–Congo is disputed. Blench (2010) considers it to be Benue–Congo. Boyd (ms), however, considers Daka an isolate branch within
Niger–Congo (Blench 2008).
Dong (Donga), though clearly Niger–Congo, is difficult to classify. There is no published data on
Gaa (Tiba), and
Taram (listed as a dialect of Daka by ''Ethnologue'') is only known from data collected in 1931 (Blench 2008).
Names and locations
Below is a list of language names, populations, and locations from Blench (2019).
Footnotes
References
*Blench (2008
''Prospecting proto-Plateau'' Manuscript.
* Blench, Roger, 2011
'The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu' ''Bantu IV'', Humboldt University, Berlin.
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Northern Bantoid languages
Languages of Nigeria
Proposed language families