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-Kutep
    1. Kpan-Icen
    Central Jukunoid
    2. Jukun-Mbembe-Wurbo
      1. Mbembe
      2. Jukun
        • Hɔne (Pindiga/Gwana)
        • Wapʰã (Wase Tofa)
        • Wapã (Mavo/Dampar)
        • Jibə (Kona)
        • Jan-Awei (?)
        • Wapan (Wukari)
        • Dĩyĩ / "Jibu koine" (Takum)
        • Jibu (Serti)
        • Wannʊ (Abinsi)
      3. Wurbo

Scans of manuscripts

The PDF files contains high resolution scans of the original manuscripts. Please notice the size of data, it could take a lot of time to download!

Anne Storch