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- Wapan_language abstract "Wapan or Jukun Wapan, also known as Wukari after the local town, is a major Jukunoid language of Nigeria.Wapan and other Jukunoid languages are interesting in the development of asymmetrical patterns of nasal and oral consonants in West Africa, where one could posit that voiced oral stops become nasal before nasal vowels, sometimes at the expense of having more nasal than oral vowels (which is typologically odd), or that nasal stops denasalize before oral vowels, which is also typologically odd. In Wapan, the asymmetry is as follows: Oral vowels are only allowed in syllables like ba, mba and nasal vowels in bã, mã. Historically, however, the consonants nasalized: *mb became **mm before nasal vowels, and then reduced to *m, leaving the current asymmetric distribution.".
- Wapan_language iso6393Code "juk".
- Wapan_language languageFamily Atlantic%E2%80%93Congo_languages.
- Wapan_language languageFamily Benue%E2%80%93Congo_languages.
- Wapan_language languageFamily Jukunoid_languages.
- Wapan_language spokenIn Nasarawa_State.
- Wapan_language spokenIn Nigeria.
- Wapan_language spokenIn Plateau_State.
- Wapan_language spokenIn Taraba.
- Wapan_language wikiPageID "33470385".
- Wapan_language wikiPageRevisionID "569268409".
- Wapan_language date "1994".
- Wapan_language fam Atlantic–Congo.
- Wapan_language fam Benue–Congo_languages.
- Wapan_language fam Jukunoid_languages.
- Wapan_language fam "Central".
- Wapan_language fam "Kororofa".
- Wapan_language familycolor "Niger-Congo".
- Wapan_language hasPhotoCollection Wapan_language.
- Wapan_language iso "juk".
- Wapan_language name "Wapan".
- Wapan_language nativename "Jukun".
- Wapan_language ref "e17".
- Wapan_language region Nasarawa_State.
- Wapan_language region Plateau_State.
- Wapan_language region Taraba.
- Wapan_language speakers "100000".
- Wapan_language states Nigeria.
- Wapan_language subject Category:Jukunoid_languages.
- Wapan_language type Abstraction100002137.
- Wapan_language type Communication100033020.
- Wapan_language type JukunoidLanguages.
- Wapan_language type Language106282651.
- Wapan_language type Language.
- Wapan_language type Language.
- Wapan_language type InformationEntity.
- Wapan_language comment "Wapan or Jukun Wapan, also known as Wukari after the local town, is a major Jukunoid language of Nigeria.Wapan and other Jukunoid languages are interesting in the development of asymmetrical patterns of nasal and oral consonants in West Africa, where one could posit that voiced oral stops become nasal before nasal vowels, sometimes at the expense of having more nasal than oral vowels (which is typologically odd), or that nasal stops denasalize before oral vowels, which is also typologically odd. ".
- Wapan_language label "Wapan language".
- Wapan_language sameAs m.02hxq6c.
- Wapan_language sameAs Q3914914.
- Wapan_language sameAs Q3914914.
- Wapan_language sameAs Wapan_language.
- Wapan_language wasDerivedFrom Wapan_language?oldid=569268409.
- Wapan_language isPrimaryTopicOf Wapan_language.
- Wapan_language name "Jukun".
- Wapan_language name "Wapan".