Atlantic-Congo · West Africa

Zhire

Not endangered

Nothing more than a wordlist has ever been published about Zhire. 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 639-3zhi
Glottocodezhir1238

Spoken in Nigeria

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Closest relatives

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

  1. Shang

    Shifting
    Wordlist or less

  2. Hyam

    Not endangered
    Grammar sketch

  3. Kurmin Dangana

    Not endangered
    Wordlist or less

  4. Kyoli

    Not endangered
    Grammar sketch

  5. Shamang

    Not endangered
    Wordlist or less

  6. Ashe

    Not endangered
    Phonology, text or dictionary

  7. Begbere-Ejar

    Threatened
    Grammar sketch

  8. Dũya

    Threatened
    Long grammar

Reference data for Zhire 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)