Ogoni languages

Ogoni
	Kegboid
Ethnicity	Ogoni people
Geographic; distribution	SE Nigeria
Linguistic classification	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Cross River Ogoni; ; ; ;
Subdivisions	East; West;
Glottolog	ogon1240[1]

The Ogoni languages, or Kegboid languages, are the five languages of the Ogoni people of Rivers State, Nigeria.

They fall into two clusters, East and West, with a limited degree of mutual intelligibility between members of each cluster. The Ogoni think of the cluster members as separate languages, however.

The classification of the Ogoni languages is as follows:

East: Khana and Tẹẹ, with around 500,000 speakers between them, and Gokana, with about 130,000.
West: Eleme, with about 70,000 speakers, and Baan, with around 17,500.

References

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

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[Glottolog-1] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ogonoid". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.