| Chakato | |
|---|---|
| Jakato Jakattoe | |
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Plateau State |
Native speakers | 500 (2016)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | jrt |
| Glottolog | chak1275 Chakatojort1240 Jakattoe |
| ELP | Jakato |
Chakato (Jakato [ʒàkàtɔ̀] or Jakattoe[2]) is aWest Chadic language spoken inPlateau State,Nigeria. It was identified byRoger Blench in 2016.[1] It is spoken by about 500 people in one village, Dokan Tofa, which is located on theJos-Shendam road inPlateau State. Blench (2017) suggests that Chakato may be related to spurious records of the Jorto language. Chakato speakers claim that their language is closely related toGoemai.[1]
Jakato is spoken in Dokan Tofa town and nearby villages in southernPlateau State. Dokan Tofa town is situated about 50 km north ofShendam.[3]
Jorto is a putativeAfro-Asiatic language claimed to be spoken inPlateau State,Nigeria, and is currently listed inEthnologue. It was introduced in an ethnographic study by C. G. Ames in 1934.[4] It has now been retired byGlottolog, based on fieldwork evidence presented byRoger Blench that suggests that there is no independent evidence that Jorto ever existed.[5][6]
On the other hand, a request to retire Jorto's ISO 639-3 jrt code was rejected because a team in Nigeria surveyed a region, that although they call their language as "Jakattoe", the "Jorto" is used by a neighboring people group.[7] But the status of jrt code itself is later temporary changed to "Deprecated" in later 2020. In Jan 15, 2021, the SIL restored the jrt and changed its reference name to Jakattoe.