Lau Laka language
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| Lau Laka | |
|---|---|
| Laka | |
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Lau LGA, Taraba State |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | lak (deprecated)[1] |
| Glottolog | laka1252 |
| ELP | Lua error in Module:Endangered_Languages_Project at line 21: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| IETF | ksp-NG |
Laka or Lau is a Central Sudanic language spoken in Nigeria. It is most closely related to Kabba Laka of Chad. The Hausa refer to the Laka people of Lau as Lakawa. The language was only recently documented in the mid-2010s, and had been previously misclassified as a Mbum language along with Lau.[2][3]
Distribution
[edit | edit source]Laka speakers live in Laka ward of Lau LGA (Hausa: Angawan Lakawa; formerly Garin Lakawa 'Laka town'), Taraba State, eastern Nigeria.[2] They live alongside the Win Lau (or Lau proper; formerly Lau Habe), who are Jukunoid speakers.[4]
Lexical comparison
[edit | edit source]The following table compares Laka (Lau) and Laka (Chad), both of which are Central Sudanic languages, with Lau proper, a Jukunoid language.[2]
| English | Laka (Lau) | Laka (Chad) | Lau proper |
|---|---|---|---|
| animal | dā | /dā/ | nɛ̃́wkũ̂ |
| cow | mã̀ŋgɨ̄ | /màngɨ̄/ | nâw |
| chicken | kũ̄nʤá | /kūnʤá/ | zǟw |
| man | ʤĩ̀ŋgàw | /ʤìngàw/ | jĩ̂nə̀nwò |
| medicine | kũ̀mā | /kùmā/ | gâj |
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Still misclassified in Ethnologue (22nd ed.) and Glottolog 4.1.
- ^ a b c Idiatov, Dmitry, Mark Van de Velde, Tope Olagunju and Bitrus Andrew. 2017. Results of the first AdaGram survey in Adamawa and Taraba States, Nigeria. 47th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics (CALL) (Leiden, Netherlands).
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