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Daka (Dakka, Dekka, rarely Deng or Tikk) is one of two languages spoken by the Chamba people in Nigeria, the other being Chamba Leko.

Daka
Regionnorthern Nigeria
EthnicityChamba people, others
Native speakers
(120,000 cited 1992–2000)[1]
Language family
Niger–Congo?
  • Atlantic–Congo
    • Volta-Congo
      • Benue–Congo
        • Bantoid
          • Northern Bantoid
            • Dakoid
              • Daka–Taram
                • Daka
Dialects
  • Nnakenyare
  • Mapeo
  • Jangani
  • Lamja
  • Dirim
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
ccg  Chamba Daka
dir  Dirim
ldh  Lamja–Dengsa–Tola
Glottologtara1325

Varieties


Daka is a dialect cluster. The Chamba dialect is called Chamba Daka (or Samba, Tsamba, Tchamba, Sama, Jama Daka; also Nakanyare) and constitutes 90% of speakers. Chamba Daka is also called Sámá Mūm.[2]

Other dialects are Dirim (Dirin, Dirrim), Lamja, Dengsa, and Tola. Dirim and Lamja–Dengsa–Tola have separate ISO coding, but Ethnologue notes that they are 'close to Samba Daka and may be a dialect' or 'may not be sufficiently distinct from Samba Daka to be a separate language', and actually lists Dirim as a dialect under Daka. Blench (2011) lists Dirim as coordinate with other Daka varieties: Nnakenyare, Mapeo, Jangani, Lamja, Dirim, suggesting that if Lamja and Dirim are considered separate languages, as in Ethnologue, then Samba Daka itself needs to be broken up into three additional languages.

Blench lists the following varieties as Samba Daka dialects.[3]


Classification


Greenberg placed Samba 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 (2011) considers it to be Bantoid. Boyd (ms), however, considers Daka an isolate branch within Niger–Congo (Blench 2008). Blench (2011) lists Taram as a separate, though closely related, language.


Phonology



Vowels


Front Central Back
Close i u
Close-mid e ə o
Open-mid ɛ ɔ
Open a

Consonants


Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar
plain labial
Nasal m n ŋ
Stop voiceless p t k k͡p
voiced b d g ɡ͡b
prenasal ᵐb ⁿt ᵑk ᵑk͡p
Affricate d͡z
Fricative voiceless f s
voiced v (z)
prenasal ⁿs
Tap/Trill ɾ ~ r
Approximant lateral l
plain j w
nasalized

References


  1. Chamba Daka at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Dirim at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Lamja–Dengsa–Tola at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Chamba-Daka materials from Raymond Boyd
  3. Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
  4. Boyd, Raymond. The phonology and tonology of Chamba Daka (Sámá Mūm). Laboratoire Ligérien de Linguistique: Université d’Orléans.

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