Jju
Jju is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Nigeria, by about 600 thousand people.
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Jju (Tyap: Jhyuo; Hausa: Kaje, Kache) is the native language of the Bajju people of Kaduna State in central Nigeria. As of 1988, there were approximately 300,000 speakers. Jju is one of the Southern Kaduna languages. Although usually listed separately from the Tyap cluster, Jju's separation, according to Blench R.M. (2018), seems to be increasingly ethnic rather than a linguistic reality.
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Words in Jju
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | 3yin* | |
| eye | s3* | |
| ear | pfuo* | |
| nose | dzuai* | |
| tooth | d3nyi* | |
| tongue | riem* | |
| hand | bvak* | |
| blood | basok* | |
| skin | kpa* | |
| liver | rya* | |
| water | bayakwot* | |
| fire | roN* | |
| sun | nom* | |
| tree | kwon* | |
| night | k3tuk* | |
| dog | k3bvwu* | |
| one | ay3r3N* | |
| two | ahwa* | |
| I | nzuk* | |
| you | nwan* | |
| we | njit* | |
| see | ryi* | |
| hear | hwok* | |
| die | kwu* | |
| come | ba* | |
| path | ryen* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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