Ekpeye language
Ekpeye (Ekpe ye) is an Igboid language of Rivers State and Imo State, Nigeria.
Ekpeye | |
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Native to | Nigeria |
Region | Rivers State |
Ethnicity | Ekpeye |
Native speakers | (30,000 cited 1973)[1] |
Niger–Congo
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | ekp |
Glottolog | ekpe1253 [2] |
Distribution
- Imo State: Ohaji/Egbema LGA
- Rivers State: Ahoada East, Ahoada West, and Ogba–Egbema–Ndoni LGAs
References
- Ekpeye at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ekpeye". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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