Ijoid is a proposed but undemonstrated group of languages linking the Ijaw languages (Ịjọ) with the endangered Defaka language. The similarities, however, may be due to Ijaw influence on Defaka.[1]
The Ijoid languages, or perhaps just Ijaw, are proposed to form a divergent branch of the hypothetical Niger–Congo family and are noted for their subject–object–verb basic word order, which is otherwise an unusual feature in Niger–Congo, shared only by such distant branches as Mande and Dogon. Like Mande and Dogon, Ijoid lacks even traces of the noun class system considered characteristic of Niger–Congo, and so might have split early from that family. Linguists Gerrit Dimmendaal and Tom Güldemann doubt its inclusion in Niger–Congo altogether and consider the Ijaw/Ijoid languages to be an independent family.[2][3]
^Roger Blench, Niger-Congo: an alternative view
^Dimmendaal, Gerrit Jan (2011-01-01). Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages. John Benjamins Publishing. ISBN 978-9027211781.
^Babaev, Kirill. "Joseph Greenberg and the Current State of Niger-Congo".
Ijoid is a proposed but undemonstrated group of languages linking the Ijaw languages (Ịjọ) with the endangered Defaka language. The similarities, however...
Ijoidlanguages to be an independent family. The following internal classification is based on Jenewari (1989) and Williamson & Blench (2000). Ijoid East...
Adamawa. The Ijoidlanguages are spoken across the Niger Delta region and include Ịjọ (Ijaw), Kalabari, Engenni and the intriguing remnant language Defaka....
pronouns; this is once again a rarity among south-central Niger–Congo languages other than Ịjoid and Defaka. á tóɓo 'her head' o toɓo 'his head' yé tóɓo 'its head'...
Ijoid and Ogoni Languages within the Niger–Congo language family. The Benue–Congo is subdivided into Cross River, Igboid, and Edoid groups. The Ijoid...
language isolates by continent Lists of languages List of proposed language families "What are the largest language families?". Ethnologue. May 25, 2019...
Funded Projects". Endangered Language Fund. Archived from the original on 2013-08-15. Retrieved 2013-06-15. "Ijoidlanguages". Encyclopædia Britannica....
be closest to the Ijoidlanguages. It is considered a language isolate by Glottolog. Unlike the neighbouring Talodi-Heiban languages which have SVO word...
Niger–Congo which only excludes the Mande, Ijoid and Dogon languages of West Africa, along with the Katla and Rashad languages of the Nuba Mountains. Nilo-Saharan...
related Niger-Congo languages, all of which belong to the Ijoid branch of the Niger-Congo tree. The primary division between the Ijo languages is that between...
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