Atlantic-Congo · West Africa

Jan-Awei

Extinct

Nothing more than a wordlist has ever been published about Jan-Awei. What it sounds like, how it works, and what it carries are all undocumented.

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FamilyAtlantic-Congo
StatusExtinct
DocumentationWordlist or less
ISO 639-3—
Glottocodejana1236

Spoken in Nigeria

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Closest relatives

Languages sharing the deepest branch of Atlantic-Congo's family tree with Jan-Awei.

  1. Hõne

    Moribund
    Long grammar

  2. Jiba

    Shifting
    Grammar sketch

  3. Wapan

    Not endangered
    Grammar sketch

  4. Jibu

    Not endangered
    Phonology, text or dictionary

  5. Jukun Takum

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

  6. Wãpha

    Shifting
    Phonology, text or dictionary

  7. Como Karim

    Not endangered
    Wordlist or less

  8. Jiru

    Not endangered
    Wordlist or less

Reference data for Jan-Awei from Glottolog 5.2.1, licensed CC-BY-4.0. Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Bank, Sebastian. 2025. Glottolog 5.2.1. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at https://glottolog.org)