Social:Auyokawa language
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Short description: Extinct Afro-Asiatic language
| Auyokawa | |
|---|---|
| Tirio | |
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Jigawa State |
| Era | attested 1924[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | auo |
auo.html | |
| Glottolog | auyo1240[2] |
| Linguasphere | 19-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
- ↑ 1.0 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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Auyokawa at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
- ↑ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
