Dakoid languages

 ( Northern Bantoid Languages ) 

The Dakoid languages are a branch of the Northern Bantoid spoken in Taraba State and Adamawa State states of eastern Nigeria.

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Languages

• Dakoid
• Donga language (Dong)
• Gãã (Tiba)
• Daka–Taram
• Taram language
• Daka language (a dialect cluster of Dirim, Samba, Lamja, Dengsa, and Tola).

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Classification Joseph Greenberg placed Samba Daka (Daka) within his Adamawa proposal, as group G3, but Bennett (1983) demonstrated to general satisfaction that it is a Benue–Congo language, though its placement within Benue–Congo is disputed. Blench (2010) considers it to be Benue–Congo. Boyd (ms), however, considers Daka an isolate branch within Niger–Congo (Blench 2008).

Donga language, though clearly Niger–Congo, is difficult to classify. There is no published data on Gaa language, and Taram language (listed as a dialect of Daka by Ethnologue) is only known from data collected in 1931 (Blench 2008).

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Names and locations Below is a list of language names, populations, and locations from Blench (2019).

Taraba State, Bali LGA, Garba Chede area

Taraba State, Mayo Belwa LGAs

Taraba State, Ganye, Jalingo, Bali, Zing, and Mayo Belwa LGAs

Taraba State, Zing and Mayo Belwa LGAs. At least six villages

Adamawa State: Ganye LGA: Tiba Plateau

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Footnotes

• Blench (2008) Prospecting proto-Plateau. Manuscript.
• Blench, Roger, 2011. 'The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu'. Bantu IV, Humboldt University, Berlin.

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