Bokyi language

Bokyi
	Boki
Native to	Southeastern Nigeria, southwestern Cameroon
Ethnicity	Bokyi people
Native speakers	(140,000 cited 1989)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid? Bendi Bokyi; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bky
Glottolog	boky1238[2]

Bokyi (Boki, Nfua, Nki, Okii, Osikom, Osukam, Uki, Vaaneroki) is a regionally important Bendi language spoken by the Bokyi people of northern Cross River State, Nigeria. It is ranked amongst the first fifteen languages of the about 520 living languages in Nigeria, with a few thousand speakers in Cameroon.

Major dialects include Abu (Abo, Baswo), Irruan, Osokom (Okundi) and Wula.^[3]

References

↑ Bokyi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bokyi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ Blench, Roger (2010). "The Bendi languages: more lost Bantu languages?" (PDF). p. 2.

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[e18-1] Bokyi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bokyi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[3] Blench, Roger (2010). "The Bendi languages: more lost Bantu languages?" (PDF). p. 2.