Boki language

Boki
Bokyi
Native to Nigeria
Native speakers
 unknown (140,000 cited 1989)[1]
Niger–Congo

  • Atlantic–Congo

    • Benue–Congo
      • Southern Bantoid?
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bky
Glottolog boky1238[2]

Boki (Bokyi, Nfua, Nki, Okii, Osikom, Osukam, Uki, Vaaneroki) is a regionally important language spoken by the Bokyi people of northern Cross River State, Nigeria. It is ranked amongst the first fifteen languages of the about 505 living languages in Nigeria, with a few thousand speakers in Cameroon.

References

  1. ↑ Boki at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bokyi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.