Ju language (Chadic) explained

Ju
States:	Nigeria
Region:	Bauchi State
Speakers:	900
Date:	1993
Ref:	e25
Familycolor:	Afro-Asiatic
Fam2:	Chadic
Fam3:	West
Fam4:	Barawa (B.3)
Fam5:	Guruntum
Iso3:	juu
Glotto:	juuu1243
Glottorefname:	Ju

Ju is a language from the West Chadian branch of the Chadic language family.^[1] ^[2] The language is spoken solely in Nigeria, and had approximately 900 native speakers in 1993. The language is unwritten.

Classification

Ju is part of the Guruntum (Gurdung according to the work of Roger Blench) group of the South Bauchi language group, and is thus similar to the Guruntum, Tala, and Zangwal languages.^[3]

General Information

The Ju language is spoken primarily in the village of the same name, Ju, which lies to the south of Bauchi. The village is in the Bauchi local government area in the state of Bauchi.

Ju shares language borders mosty with other West Chadic languages; Zangwal to the north, Tala to the northwest, the Polchi language cluster to the west, and the Kir-Balar language to the south. To the east, Ju borders the sprachbund of the Dulbu language.^[4]

Information on the number of speakers of the Ju language is varied: in 1971, Ju had around 150 speakers,^[5] and Ethnologue measured 900 in 1993. However, the Joshua Project, has reported that Ju is used solely among the older generation, while the youth are switching to Hausa.

External links

Web site: OLAC resources in and about the Ju language . https://archive.today/20161130183444/http://www.language-archives.org/language/juu . 2016-11-30 . Language-archives.org . en .
Web site: 2016 . Hammarström . Harald . Forkel . Robert . Haspelmath . Martin . Bank . Sebastian . Language: Ju . https://archive.today/20161130183909/http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/juuu1243 . 2016-11-30 . Glottolog . Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History . en .

Notes and References

Web site: Blench . Robert . Roger Blench . 2006 . The Afro-Asiatic Languages. Classification and Reference List . https://web.archive.org/web/20131007050740/http://rogerblench.info/Language/Afroasiatic/General/AALIST.pdf . 2013-10-07 . Roger Blench Website. Publications . 4–6 . en .
Web site: Blench . Robert . Roger Blench . 2012 . 3rd . An Atlas of Nigerian Languages . https://web.archive.org/web/20130420192115/http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Africa/Nigeria/Atlas%20of%20Nigerian%20Languages-%20ed%20III.pdf . 2013-04-20 . Roger Blench . en .
Web site: Blench . Roger . 2021-01-01 . West Chadic classification 2021 . Academia .
Web site: 2016 . Lewis . M. Paul . Simons . Gary F. . Fennig . Charles D. . Nigeria, Map 3 . https://archive.today/20161130181719/http://www.ethnologue.com/18/map/NG_03/ . 2016-11-30 . Ethnologue: Languages of the World (19th Edition) . . en.
Web site: Blench . Robert . Roger Blench . 2012 . 3rd . An Atlas of Nigerian Languages . https://web.archive.org/web/20130420192115/http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Africa/Nigeria/Atlas%20of%20Nigerian%20Languages-%20ed%20III.pdf . 2013-04-20 . Roger Blench . 45 . en .