Abanyom language

Abanyom
Spoken in	Nigeria
Region	Cross River State
Native speakers	12,500 (1986)
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Ekoid Efutop–Ekajuk Abanyom; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	abm

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Abanyom is a language of the Ekoid subfamily of Niger–Congo. It is spoken by the Abanyom people in the Cross River State region of Nigeria, numbering about 12,500 people in 1986.^[1] A member of the Southern Bantoid group, Abanyom is fairly closely related to the Bantu languages. It is tonal and has a typical Niger–Congo noun class system.

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^ Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com/.

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