Social:Teshenawa language
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Short description: Extinct Afro-Asiatic language of Nigeria
| Teshenawa | |
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| Teshenanchi | |
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Jigawa State |
| Extinct | after 1927[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | twc |
twc.html | |
| Glottolog | tesh1239[2] |
Teshenawa (Teshenanchi) is an extinct Afro-Asiatic language formerly spoken in Teshena town of Kafin Hausa LGA, Jigawa State, Nigeria.[3][4] It was closely related to the also-extinct Auyokawa and still-living Bade.[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). "Teshenawa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/tesh1239.
- ↑ Teshenawa at Ethnologue (13th ed., 1996).
- ↑ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
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