Lower Cross River languages
| Lower Cross River | |
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Lower Cross Ibibioid | |
| Geographic distribution: | SE Nigeria |
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| Glottolog: | obol1242[1] |
The Lower Cross River languages, or Ibibioid, form a branch of the Cross River languages of Rivers State, Nigeria. They consist of the divergent Obolo language (or Andoni, 200,000 speakers), and the core of the branch, which includes the 4 million speakers of the Ibibio-Efik cluster.
- Obolo
- Lower Cross proper (Ibibioid): Ibibio-Efik, Ibino (Ibeno), Oro (Oron), Okobo, Iko, Ebughu, Ilue, Enwang-Uda, Usaghade
Forde and Jones (1950) considered Ibino and Oro to be Ibibio-Efik.
References
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Lower Cross". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
External links
- Roger Blench, Comparative Lower Cross wordlist