Defaka is an endangered and divergent Nigerian language of uncertain classification. It is spoken in the Opobo–Nkoro LGA of Rivers State, in the Defaka...
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Defaka may refer to: the Defaka people the Defaka language This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Defaka. If an internal link...
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The Defaka (called Afakani by their neighbours, the Nkoroo) are a small ethnic group of south-eastern Nigeria, numbering fewer than a thousand people....
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languages (Ịjọ) with the endangered Defaka language. The similarities, however, may be due to Ijaw influence on Defaka. The Ijoid languages, or perhaps just...
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name of Merkur; some of the group's smaller department stores were called DeFaKa (Deutsches Familien Kaufhaus), but these had all been replaced with modern...
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significantly influenced the Defaka language. Nkọrọọ at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) "Documenting Defaka & Nkoroo". defaka.rutgers.edu. Archived...
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Hakka Chinese (redirect from Hak-ka-fa)
(Chinese: 客家话; pinyin: Kèjiāhuà; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Hak-kâ-va / Hak-kâ-fa, Chinese: 客家语; pinyin: Kèjiāyǔ; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Hak-kâ-ngî) forms a language group of varieties...
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dismissed from his job as a manager at Gleiwitz Deutsches Familien-Kaufhaus (DeFaKa) in April 1933 due to anti-Jewish legislation. The petition addressed not...
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Forces Assembly of First Nations, in Canada Athletics Federation of Nigeria Defaka language, a Nigerian language Asian Food Network, Southeast Asian pay television...
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numbering about 4,700 (1989). The Nkoroo live in a close relationship with the Defaka, with both groups living in the same town (Nkoro town). They speak their...
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Atlantic–Congo Mande Kordofanian Katla Lafofa Rashad Talodi–Heiban Others Defaka Dogon Ijoid Isolates Bangime Jalaa ? Komta ? Laal Unclassified Degere ?...
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include Ịjọ (Ijaw), Kalabari, Engenni and the intriguing remnant language Defaka. The Engenni language is spoken in the Ahoada-west region of Rivers State...
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languages within Niger–Congo are grouped as Dogon, Mande, Ijo (sometimes with Defaka as Ijoid), Katla, and Rashad. Atlantic–Congo combines the Atlantic languages...
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Atlantic–Congo Mande Kordofanian Katla Lafofa Rashad Talodi–Heiban Others Defaka Dogon Ijoid Isolates Bangime Jalaa ? Komta ? Laal Unclassified Degere ?...
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in Port Harcourt and the local government areas of Okrika and Ogu–Bolo. Defaka word list (Wiktionary) Kalabari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription...
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(Adamawa? Extinct?) Roger Blench notes a couple additional possibilities: Defaka (Nigeria) Dompo (Ghana) Below is a list of language isolates and otherwise...
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tongue Home language Abua 25,000 Agbirigba 30 Baan 50,000 Biseni 4,800 Defaka 200 Degema 30,000 Ekpeye 30,000 Eleme 150,000 Engenni 20,000 Igbo 680,000...
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few languages with gender-specific pronouns, such as English, Afrikaans, Defaka, Khmu, Malayalam, Tamil, and Yazgulyam, lack grammatical gender; in such...
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Atlantic–Congo Mande Kordofanian Katla Lafofa Rashad Talodi–Heiban Others Defaka Dogon Ijoid Isolates Bangime Jalaa ? Komta ? Laal Unclassified Degere ?...
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Vol. 11. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 58–444. doi:10.1515/9783110421668-002. ISBN 978-3-11-042606-9. S2CID 133888593. Wolf, Paul de (1971). The Noun-Class...
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Afroasiatic-speaking areas may turn out to be isolates upon further investigation. Defaka and Ega are highly divergent languages located within Niger–Congo-speaking...
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linguistique des langues signées non vocalement" (PDF). Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée (in French). 10 (1): 215–288. Glottolog...
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etymological dictionary. Some examples from Blench (2016): Hans Günther Mukarovsky [de]'s reconstruction of Proto-Western Nigritic (roughly equivalent to Proto-Atlantic–Congo)...
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Atlantic–Congo Mande Kordofanian Katla Lafofa Rashad Talodi–Heiban Others Defaka Dogon Ijoid Isolates Bangime Jalaa ? Komta ? Laal Unclassified Degere ?...
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languages reassigned to Volta–Niger, and Apro added. Some of the Na-Togo and Ka-Togo languages have been placed into separate branches of Kwa. See the infobox...
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Printing and Publishing Co. Cape Town. Frank Kügler, Caroline Féry, Ruben Van De Vijver (2009) Variation and Gradience in Phonetics and Phonology Elugbe, Ben...
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Languages of Cameroon (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
DW. DeLancey & DeLancey (2000:220) DeLancey & DeLancey (2000:192) DeLancey & DeLancey (2000:131) DeLancey & DeLancey (2000:192) Tanang Tchouala, Patrice;...
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considered a distinct branch of the Niger–Congo family (perhaps along with Defaka in a group called Ijoid). They are notable for their subject–object–verb...
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ISBN 9780877501589. Delafosse, Maurice (1901). Essai de manuel pratique de la langue mandé ou mandingue ... Institut national de langues et civilisations orientales....
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Plains Dogon: Jamsai,*Tɔrɔ tegu, Western Plains (dialects: Togo kã, Tengu kã, Tomo kã) Escarpment Dogon (dialects: Tɔrɔ sɔɔ,*Tommo so, Donno sɔ aka Kamma...
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