Upper Cross River languages

Upper Cross River
Upper Cross
Geographic
distribution		 SE Nigeria
Linguistic classification Niger–Congo
Subdivisions
  • Central
  • Akpet
  • Agoi–Doko–Iyoniyong
  • Kiong–Korop
Glottolog uppe1418[1]

The Upper Cross River languages form a branch of the Cross River languages of Cross River State, Nigeria. The most populous languages are Loko and Mbembe, with 100,000 speakers.

Languages

The internal structure per Cornell (1994), reproduced in Williamson and Blench (2000), is as follows:

 Upper Cross 

 Central 

 North–South 

Koring–Kukele

 

Oring (Koring)

 
 

Kele (Kukele), Zekwe (Uzekwe)

 
 
Ubaghara–Kohumono

 

Kohumono: Humono (Kohumono), Gwune (Agwagwune), Umon

 
 

Ubaghara

 
 
 
 East–West 

 

Ikom

 
 

Loko: Lokaa, Lubila, Nkukoli

 
Mbembe–Legbo

 

Mbembe

 
 

Legbo: Legbo (Gbo), Nyima (Lenyima), Yigha (Leyigha)

 
 
 
 
 

Akpet: Ukpet-Ehom

 
 

Agoi, Doko (Uyanga), Iyongiyong (Bakpinka)

 
 

Kiong–Kororb: Kiong (Kayon), Durorb (Kororb)

 
 

References

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


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