Iyive language

Iyive
Uive
Native to Cameroon, Nigeria
Ethnicity Ndir
Native speakers
 2,000  (1992–1996)[1]
Niger–Congo

  • Atlantic–Congo

    • Benue–Congo
      • Southern Bantoid
Language codes
ISO 639-3 uiv
Glottolog iyiv1238[2]

Iyive (Uive) is a Tivoid language of the Cameroons. It is close to Tiv proper.

References

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