Yauri (or Yawuri) is an emirate in Nigeria 's Kebbi State , occupying the Yauri Local Government Area . Today, Yauri is one of the smallest historical emirates in Northern Nigeria. In 1972, the population was about 112,000 people inhabiting a land area of about 1,306 square miles (3,380 km) and scattered over six major districts.
10-521: The area was first settled by an eastern group around early 1000-1200 AD, predominantly by a Benue–Congo linguistic group, the Kamberis. Then for a brief period of time, Yauri was invaded by the Songhai Empire and it incorporated a few Songhai invaders into its social structure. The increasing agricultural surplus exhibited by the early settlers and the availability of fertile land near a river brought in
20-564: A diverse and malleable group of migrants seeking fertile land to farm, and the groups were initially dominated by the Gungawas . This became the second wave of migration into Yauri. In the early sixteenth century, the island-dwelling Gungawa kingdom expanded through war with the Kamberis to became the dominant political group in the area under the first Emir of Yauri, Sarkin Yauri Garba . He founded
30-557: A gradual inter-ethnic political relationship with Hausas. However, in early nineteenth century, the success of the Fulani jihad made Yauri a tributary state of Gwandu . Sarkin Abdullahi was a native ruler of Yauri after the disastrous rule of Aliyu, a fulani ruler. He was quite educated and was a teacher before his coronation as Sarkin. He was known for his meticulous dedication to education, health and generally most services under his emirate. He
40-487: A united branch with Benue–Congo. When Benue–Congo was first proposed by Joseph Greenberg (1963), it included Volta–Niger (as West Benue–Congo); the boundary between Volta–Niger and Kwa has been repeatedly debated. Blench (2012) states that if Benue–Congo is taken to be "the noun-class languages east and north of the Niger", it is likely to be a valid group, though no demonstration of this has been made in print. The branches of
50-410: Is an unclassified Benue–Congo language of Nigeria ., it is mainly spoken in the states of Taraba and Plateau. The Tita language has no existing dialects, and thus no alternate dialect names. There is only 1 recorded People Groups Speaking it as a Primary Language. In the year 2000 the number of native speakers was recorded at 3,400, however some sources put the number higher at 6,600 (likely
60-626: The Plateau , Jukunoid and Kainji families, and Bantoid–Cross combines the Bantoid and Cross River groups. Bantoid is only a collective term for every subfamily of Bantoid–Cross except Cross River, and this is no longer seen as forming a valid branch, however one of the subfamilies, Southern Bantoid, is still considered valid. It is Southern Bantoid which contains the Bantu languages, which are spoken across most of Sub-Saharan Africa. This makes Benue–Congo one of
70-692: The Benue–Congo family are thought to be as follows: Ukaan is also related to Benue–Congo; Roger Blench suspects it might be either the most divergent (East) Benue–Congo language or the closest relative to Benue–Congo. Fali of Baissa and Tita are also Benue–Congo but are otherwise unclassified. Below is a list of major Benue–Congo branches and their primary locations (centres of diversity) within Nigeria based on Blench (2019). Sample basic vocabulary for reconstructed proto-languages of different Benue-Congo branches: Tita language Tita or "Hoai Petel"
80-464: The capital of Bin Yauri and named it after himself. However, by the eighteenth century, slave raiding had clipped the political and economic structures of the area. The need for a much more powerful political entity became necessary in order to strengthen the emirate against slave raiders from without. A movement by the ruling and malleable Gungawas to assimilate with the dominant Hausas in the region led to
90-544: The largest subdivisions of the Niger–Congo language family, both in number of languages, of which Ethnologue counts 976 (2017), and in speakers, numbering perhaps 350 million. Benue–Congo also includes a few minor isolates in the Nigeria–Cameroon region, but their exact relationship is uncertain. The neighbouring Volta–Niger branch of Nigeria and Benin is sometimes called "West Benue–Congo", but it does not form
100-618: Was born in 1910, and was educated at the Provincial School Kano. Following is the kings list of the Yauri Emirate. 10°44′56″N 4°46′40″E / 10.74889°N 4.77778°E / 10.74889; 4.77778 Benue%E2%80%93Congo Benue–Congo (sometimes called East Benue–Congo ) is a major branch of the Volta-Congo languages which covers most of Sub-Saharan Africa . Central Nigerian (or Platoid) contains
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