Abanyom language
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| Abanyom | ||
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| Spoken in: | Nigeria | |
| Region: | Cross River State | |
| Total speakers: | 12,500 | |
| Language family: | Niger-Congo Atlantic-Congo Volta-Congo Benue-Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Ekoid Abanyom |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | bnt | |
| ISO 639-3: | abm | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
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. This was the number of speakers back 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.
[edit] Sources
- ^ 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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