Social:Auyokawa language

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Short description: Extinct Afro-Asiatic language
Auyokawa
Tirio
Native toNigeria
RegionJigawa State
Eraattested 1924[1]
Afro-Asiatic
  • Chadic
    • West Chadic
      • Bade–Warji
Language codes
ISO 639-3auo
auo.html
Glottologauyo1240[2]
Linguasphere19-DAD(-aa)

Auyokawa (Auyo), also known as Tirio, is an extinct Afro-Asiatic language formerly spoken in Auyo LGA, Jigawa State, Nigeria.[3][4] It is known primarily from a list of numbers, the names of the days of the week, and a phrase.[1]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Schuh, Russell G. (2001), "Shira, Teshena, Auyo: Hausa's (former) eastern neighbors", Historical Language Contact in Africa, Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika (Köln: Rüdiger Köppe) 16/17: pp. 387–435 
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Auyokawa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/auyo1240. 
  3. Auyokawa at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
  4. Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.