Lower Cross River languages
| Lower Cross River | |
|---|---|
| Lower Cross, Ibibioid | |
| Geographic distribution | SE Nigeria |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger–Congo
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| Subdivisions |
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| Glottolog | obol1242[1] |
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.[2]
- Obolo
- Lower Cross proper: Efik-Ibibio, Ibino (Ibeno), Oro (Oron), Okobo, Iko, Ebughu, Ilue, Enwang-Uda, Usaghade
Additionally, Ethnologue lists several more languages within the Efik-Ibibio cluster. (See Ibibio-Efik languages.)
Forde and Jones (1950) considered Ibino and Oro to be Efik-Ibibio.
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Lower Cross". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ 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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