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	Defaka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Defaka have always been a people small in number, and their history is a long narrative of harassments by numerically superior neighbours and subsequent migrations.
		Thus, the Defaka and Nkoroo peoples have presumably been living together as neighbours prior to the establishment of Nkoroo town, perhaps even since the time that both of them were in the Okrika territory.
		Ethnically, the Defaka are distinct from the Nkoroo, but they have assimilated to Nkoroo culture to such a degree that their language seems to be the only sign of a distinct Defaka identity.
	www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/Defaka (800 words)

	Defaka: UNESCO-CI
		Defaka possesses a number of structural features that are rare in African languages.
		Nowadays, the Defaka speech community speaks Nkoroo as their first language, but most if not all Defaka are also fluent in Nigerian Pidgin and English, as well as in other neighbouring languages.
		The main factors that contributed to the endangerment of Defaka language are: the dominant oil economy of the Niger delta which has created an immense threat to the ecology, culture and traditions of the region and English and Nigerian Pidgin which have exerted a strong influence in the region.
	portal.unesco.org /ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=9869&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (320 words)

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		The Ijoid group to which Defaka belongs is a distinct group within Niger-Congo and is enclaved by languages of the Benue-Congo family, a language family to which it is only distantly related.
		Defaka is a highly endangered language spoken by fewer than 1,000 people, with most speakers being over 40.
		Both are spoken by small and diminishing numbers of speakers; Defaka is no longer spoken in public, and indeed can no longer be considered a principle home language as it is not passed on to the younger generations.
	coral.lili.uni-bielefeld.de /langdoc/EGA/Proposals/Ega-proposal2 (7499 words)

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		The Ijoid group to which Defaka belongs is a distinct group within Niger-Congo and is enclaved by languages of the Benue-Congo family, a language family to which it is only distantly related.
		Defaka is a highly endangered language spoken by fewer than 1,000 people, with most speakers being over 40.
		The Defaka speak Nkoroo as their principal language, but most if not all Defaka also have fluency in Nigerian Pidgin and English, as well as other neighbouring languages on an individual basis.
	www.spectrum.uni-bielefeld.de /langdoc/EGA/Proposals/Ega-proposal2 (7499 words)

	Ijoid languages - Encyclopedia.com
		The Ijoid languages are found in the relatively narrow coastal Niger River delta region of Nigeria.
		They consist of a language cluster, Ijo, which is spoken by about two million people, and the solitary Defaka, spoken by very few.
		The Ijo were among the first West Africans to have contact with Europeans, and the Ijo language is believed to be one of the first Nigerian languages written.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1B1-394866.html (148 words)

	BABELWORDS-Defaka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Defaka, also called Afakani, are a small ethnic group in southwest Nigeria.
		Defaka became endangered because of mixing with the Nkoroo language.
		It was this close contact with the Nkoroo that partly eroded the Defaka language: paradoxically good relations with this population have led to the Defaka culture, in reality very close to the Nkoroo, being absorbed and that the children began to grow up speaking the Nkoroo language as a first language.
	www.benettontalk.com /opencms/opencms/benettontalk/en/min_0001/con_0006/art_0002.html (389 words)

	BABELWORDS-Defaka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Los defaka, llamados tambiÃ©n afakani, son un exiguo grupo Ã©tnico de la Nigeria suroccidental.
		El defaka ha entrado en fase de peligro a raÃz de la contaminaciÃ³n con el lenguaje nkoroo.
		Otra lengua que acorrala el defaka es el ibo, considerado todavÃa hoy como la lengua de la escolarizaciÃ³n y de las transacciones comerciales, en contacto con el idioma desde hace cerca de 300 aÃ±os.
	www.benettontalk.com /opencms/opencms/benettontalk/es/min_0001/con_0006/art_0002.html (437 words)

	Foundation For Endangered Languages. Home
		Defaka, according to her findings, is the language most endangered within that area.
		Today, all young speakers of the Defaka community have already completely lost their language competence, speaking Nkoro instead.
		Paul Newman from the Institute for the Study of Nigerian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University, USA, reported on the activities of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) committee on endangered languages and their preservation.
	www.ogmios.org /65.htm (3952 words)

	Word List for Defaka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		défaka gbii jaa hém hióḿ gbórí baaɰe, défaɰa mĩn ni ónúma ma, oní ija tómmm ja gbõdlé láa, ne ḿbé j̃á si õi óój̃é jáa, n ale ḿbá ma ti si faa, défaɰa wá ḿbra ka munɔ wá mbra karéé?
		Once upon a time the people of Defaka were set on.......
		Then their leader asked ‘Defaka, are we giving up or not?’ And they answere ‘We are not giving up.’ From thence they continued in unity and hence survived to keep the Defaka as solid as it is. This is the end of my story.
	archive.phonetics.ucla.edu /Language/AFN/afn_story_1994_01.html (293 words)

	IZON: The Historical Perspective By Professor E. J. Alagoa
		The Nkoro and Defaka of Opobo-Nkoro local government area of Rivers state have lived so long in the eastern extremity of the Niger Delta, that their language is now believed to be the oldest living variety of Ijo.
		The Ibani of Opobo, of-course, moved into this corner of the Niger Delta only in the nineteenth century, strengthening and expanding the activities of the Ijo kingdoms of Bonny and Okrika from much earlier times eastwards through the waterways of the Nigerian coast into Ibibio and Efik country and beyond the Cross River.
		The oral traditions, therefore, suggest that the original homes of the Ijo people were deep inside the Niger Delta, and that communities moved outwards east, west and north into the rest of the Niger Delta.
	www.waado.org /NigerDelta/EthnicHistories/Ijaw/Izon-Alagoa.html (1522 words)

	IZON The Historical Perspective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Nkoro and Defaka of Opobo-Nkoro local government area of Rivers state have lived so long in the eastern extremity of the Niger Delta, that their language is now believed to be the oldest living variety of Ijo.
		The Ibani of Opobo, of-course, moved into this corner of the Niger Delta only in the nineteenth century, strengthening and expanding the activities of the Ijo kingdoms of Bonny and Okrika from much earlier times eastwards through the waterways of the Nigerian coast into Ibibio and Efik country and beyond the Cross River.
		The oral traditions, therefore, suggest that the original homes of the Ijo people were deep inside the Niger Delta, and that communities moved outwards east, west and north into the rest of the Niger Delta.
	nigerdeltacongress.com /iarticles/izon_the_historical_perspective.htm (1521 words)

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		Even among those 70 and over, 14 percent of men and 7 percent of women were working in 2005, up from 10 percent and 4 percent, respectively, in '93.
		The looming extinction of Defaka, Nkoroo, Tsafiki, Edo and some 3,000 other obscure languages around the world has spurred the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation to distribute about $5 million this year to scholars to document and preserve some of these endangered tongues.
		Top priorities are documenting Northern Haida, a language of Alaska and British Columbia with just 14 remaining speakers, and Washo, an American Indian language spoken by only 20 elderly people scattered near the Nevada-California border.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06197/706008-28.stm (730 words)

	Ethnologue report for language code:afn
		Bendor-Samuel, Pamela M. Review of: Defaka: Ijo’s closest linguistic relative, by Charles E. Jenewari.
		Review of: Defaka: Ijo’s closest linguistic relative, by Charles E. Jenewari.
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	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=afn (76 words)

	United States Supports Research To Document Endangered Languages
		Examples abound: Only one-fourth of the Northern Cheyenne tribe in Montana speak their native language.
		In Nigeria, Defaka is spoken by just 200 people.
		And there are fewer than a dozen native speakers of N/uu, one of several African languages that use distinctive clicks for some consonants.
	usinfo.state.gov /xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2006&m=December&x=20061206094833xlrennef6.754702e-02&chanlid=washfile (839 words)

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