Atlantic-Congo · West Africa

Rishiwa

Not endangered

Nothing more than a wordlist has ever been published about Rishiwa. What it sounds like, how it works, and what it carries are all undocumented.

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FamilyAtlantic-Congo
StatusNot endangered
DocumentationWordlist or less
ISO 639-3rsw
Glottocoderish1234

Spoken in Nigeria

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Closest relatives

Languages sharing the deepest branch of Atlantic-Congo's family tree with Rishiwa.

  1. Vori

    Shifting
    Wordlist or less

  2. Bina (Nigeria)

    Shifting
    Wordlist or less

  3. Gbiri-Niragu

    Not endangered
    Phonology, text or dictionary

  4. Kinuku

    Threatened
    Wordlist or less

  5. Kizamani

    Not endangered
    Wordlist or less

  6. Kono (Nigeria)

    Shifting
    Phonology, text or dictionary

  7. Kurama

    Not endangered
    Phonology, text or dictionary

  8. Amo

    Not endangered
    Grammar sketch

Reference data for Rishiwa from Glottolog 5.2.1, licensed CC-BY-4.0. Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Bank, Sebastian. 2025. Glottolog 5.2.1. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at https://glottolog.org)