Lower Cross River languages
| Lower Cross River | |
|---|---|
| Lower Cross Ibibioid | |
| Geographic distribution | SE Nigeria |
| Linguistic classification | Niger–Congo?
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| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | obol1242 |
The Lower Cross River languages form a branch of the Cross River languages of Rivers State, Nigeria. They consist of the divergent Obolo language (or Andoni, 200,000 speakers), and the core of the branch, which includes the 4 million speakers of the Efik-Ibibio cluster.[1]
- Obolo
- Lower Cross proper : Efik-Ibibio, Ibino (Ibeno), Oro (Oron), Okobo, Iko, Ebughu, Ilue, Enwang-Uda, Usaghade
Forde and Jones (1950) considered Ibino and Oro to be Efik-Ibibio.
References
- ^ Essien, Okon (1990). A grammar of the Ibibio language. Ibadan, Nigeria: University Press Limited.
External links
- Roger Blench, Comparative Lower Cross wordlist
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