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Jukun manuscripts

The collection of Jukun materials on this website combine field data from William Welmers, Margret Dykstra and Robert Koops. All of the Jukun databases have been given to the institute by Rob Koops in order to be digitalised and made accessible to a wider public. The original copies are now in the archive of Roger Blench, Cambridge, UK.

The Jukun languages are East Benue-Congo languages spoken in regions east and north-east of the Nigerian Jos Plateau. They are often classified as being all close dialects of Wapan (Wukari Jukun; c.f. Welmers 1968, Shimizu 1980a), but according to recent research form a group of at least nine mutually largely incomprehensible languages, besides the virtually unknown Mbembe and Wurbo branches.

The languages we are able to list for the group

Yukuben-KutepCentral Jukunoid
a. Kpan-Icen

b. Jukun-Mbembe-Wurbo

  1. Mbembe
  2. Jukun
    • H?ne (Pindiga/Gwana)
    • Wap?ã (Wase Tofa)
    • Wapã (Mavo/Dampar)
    • Jib? (Kona)
    • Jan-Awei (?)
    • Wapan (Wukari)
    • D?y? / "Jibu koine" (Takum)
    • Jibu (Serti)
    • Wann? (Abinsi)
  3. Wurbo

Scans of manuscripts

The PDF files contains high resolution scans of the original manuscripts

Welmers, W. E., 1949. Speaking Jukun (Takum Dialect) · 96.1 MB, 74 pages

Phonological Hierarchy of Jukun, Takum dialect ·19.9 MB, 10 pages

Evenhouse, W., Wukari Jukun – A brief description in English · 44.9 MB, 43 pages

Evenhouse, W. and H. Kiekover, 1968(?). Report of the Wukari Jukun Literacy Survey Team · 56.4 MB, 35 pages

Jira ku Shina bi Daniel a bitaku ku Shara Jenkuru · 5.2 MB, 5 pages

Jira bi Shedara ba Misha ba Obenigo · 4.4 MB, 4 pages

Cassette recording Nwunugi · 4.6 MB, 2 pages

Cassette recordings 1 · 10.9 MB, 8 pages

Cassette recordings 2 · 12.0 MB, 10 pages

Cassette recordings 3 · 5.9 MB, 5 pages

Jukun Greetings · 20.1 MB, 24 pages

Memo Jukun Translation + Idioms · 46.3 MB, 13 pages

Jukun notes · 178 pages: Part 1 (54.1 MB) · Part 2 (95.7 MB) · Part 3 (96.6 MB) · Part 4 (88.3 MB)