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 | Central Jukunoid |
| a. Kpan-Icen | b. Jukun-Mbembe-Wurbo
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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)