Atlantic-Congo · West Africa

Shau

Extinct

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

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FamilyAtlantic-Congo
StatusExtinct
DocumentationWordlist or less
ISO 639-3sqh
Glottocodeshau1238

Spoken in Nigeria

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Closest relatives

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

  1. Gyem

    Shifting
    Phonology, text or dictionary

  2. Gamo-Ningi

    Extinct
    Wordlist or less

  3. Iguta

    Not endangered
    Phonology, text or dictionary

  4. Izora

    Shifting
    Wordlist or less

  5. Janji

    Shifting
    Wordlist or less

  6. Jere

    Not endangered
    Phonology, text or dictionary

  7. Kudu-Camo

    Moribund
    Phonology, text or dictionary

  8. Lemoro

    Not endangered
    Wordlist or less

Reference data for Shau 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)