Afro-Asiatic · West Africa

Kariya

Shifting

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

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FamilyAfro-Asiatic
StatusShifting
DocumentationWordlist or less
ISO 639-3kil
Glottocodekari1316

Spoken in Nigeria

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Closest relatives

Languages sharing the deepest branch of Afro-Asiatic's family tree with Kariya.

  1. Warji-Gala

    Threatened
    Phonology, text or dictionary

  2. Miya

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

  3. Ajawa

    Extinct
    Wordlist or less

  4. Ciwogai

    Threatened
    Wordlist or less

  5. Mburku

    Not endangered
    Wordlist or less

  6. Pa'a

    Shifting
    Grammar

  7. Siri

    Shifting
    Wordlist or less

  8. Zumbun

    Not endangered
    Wordlist or less

Reference data for Kariya 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)