East Kainji languages are less internally diverse than some of the other Plateau branches in the Nigerian Middle Belt (Blench 2007).
Historically, the East Kainji branch had been influenced by Chadic languages that no longer exist in the region.
[1] At the time of the British conquest, several of these languages were in the process of shifting from duodecimal to decimal systems.
[1] Blench (2020) suggests that the East Kainji branch is most closely related to Basa, since both have (C)V-CVCV phonotactic structures.
Below is a comprehensive list of East Kainji language names, populations, and locations from Blench (2019).
[13] The following table shows the singular and plural forms for ‘arm, hand’ from various East Kainji language varieties.