Ikwo language

Ikwo
Region	Ebonyi State, Nigeria
Ethnicity	Ikwo people
Native speakers	260,000 (2012)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Volta–Niger yeai Igboid Igbo Izi–Ezaa–Ikwo–Mgbo Ikwo; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	iqw
Glottolog	ikwo1238[2]

Ikwo is an Igbo language spoken in Ebonyi state in Nigeria. It forms a dialect cluster with closely related Izii, Ezza, and Mgbo, though they are only marginally mutually intelligible.

References

Ikwo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ikwo". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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

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