Ayere–Ahan Languages
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The Ayere–Ahan languages are a pair of languages of southwestern Nigeria, Ayere and Àhàn (or Ahaan), that form an independent branch of the
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ASJP The Automated Similarity Judgment Program (ASJP) is a collaborative project applying computational approaches to comparative linguistics using a database of word lists. The database is open access and consists of 40-item basic-vocabulary lists f ...
4.0 classifies the Ayere–Ahan languages as most closely related to the
Yoruboid languages Yoruboid is a language family composed of the Igala language, Igala group of dialects spoken in south central Nigeria, and the Edekiri languages subdivided into the Ede language, Ede group (which includes Yoruba) spoken in a band across Togo, Gha ...
.Müller, André, Viveka Velupillai, Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, Eric W. Holman, Sebastian Sauppe, Pamela Brown, Harald Hammarström, Oleg Belyaev, Johann-Mattis List, Dik Bakker, Dmitri Egorov, Matthias Urban, Robert Mailhammer, Matthew S. Dryer, Evgenia Korovina, David Beck, Helen Geyer, Pattie Epps, Anthony Grant, and Pilar Valenzuela. 2013
ASJP World Language Trees of Lexical Similarity: Version 4
(October 2013).


Names and locations

Below is a list of Ayere–Ahan language names and locations from Blench (2019).


See also

* Ayere-Ahan word lists (Wiktionary)


References

*Blench, Roger. 2007
The Ayere and Ahan languages of Central Nigeria and their affinities
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