"Ijoid is a proposed but undemonstrated group of languages linking the Ijaw languages (\u1ECAj\u1ECD) with the endangered Defaka language. The similarities, however, may be due to Ijaw influence on Defaka.The Ijoid, or perhaps just Ijaw, languages form a divergent branch of the Niger\u2013Congo family and are noted for their subject\u2013object\u2013verb basic word order, which is otherwise an unusual feature in Niger\u2013Congo, shared only by such distant branches as Mande and Dogon."@en .