The Kainji languages are a group of about 60 related languages spoken in west-central Nigeria. They may be an independent branch of Benue-Congo.
Facts
Partially Attested
Speaker CountEstimate of about one million speakers dating from the 1990s, not a current count. Proto-Language StatusProto-Kainji reconstructed; estimated 3,000 to 4,000 years old (Blench 2012) 1 Sources
1. Wikipedia: Kainji languages
Lead paragraph
The Kainji languages are a group of about 60 related languages spoken in west-central Nigeria.
Speakers paragraph
In total, there were about one million speakers of Kainji languages (1990s estimate) in Nigeria.
Proto-Kainji paragraph
Proto-Kainji is estimated by Blench (2012) to be 3,000 to 4,000 years old.
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