| Ukaan | ||
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| Spoken in | Nigeria | |
| Region | Ondo State | |
| Total speakers | 18,000 in 1973 | |
| Language family | Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | – | |
| ISO 639-3 | kcf | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Ukaan (also Ikan, Anyaran, Auga, or Kakumo) is an undocumented and sparsely described Niger-Congo language or dialect cluster of uncertain affiliation.[1][2] Roger Blench suspects, based on wordlists, that it may be closest to the (East) Benue-Congo languages (or, equivalently, the most divergent of the Benue-Congo languages).
The name Anyaran is from the town of Anyaran, where it is spoken. Ukaan has several divergent dialects: Ikaan proper, Igau, Ayegbe (Iisheu), Iinno (Iyinno), which may only have one-way intelligibility.
References
- ^ Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.) (2005). "Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition". Dallas, Texas: SIL International. http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=kcf. Retrieved on 2009-04-03.
- ^ "HRELP - Projects". http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=93. Retrieved on 2009-04-03.
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