Upper Cross River languages

Upper Cross River
Upper Cross
Geographic
distribution:		 SE Nigeria
Linguistic classification:

Niger–Congo

  • Atlantic–Congo
Subdivisions:
  • Central
  • Akpet
  • Agoi–Doko–Iyoniyong
  • Kiong–Korop
Glottolog: uppe1418[1]

The Upper Cross River languages form a branch of the Cross River languages of Cross River State, Nigeria. The most populous languages are Loko and Membe, with 100,000 speakers.

Languages

The internal structure per Cornell (1994), reproduced in Williamson and Blench (2000), is as follows:

 Upper Cross 
 Central 
 North–South 
Koring–Kukele

Oring (Koring)

Kele (Kukele), Zekwe (Uzekwe)



Ubaghara–Kohumono

Kohumono: Humono (Kohumono), Gwune (Agwagwune), Umon

Ubaghara




 East–West 

Ikom

Loko: Lokaa, Lubila, Nkukoli


Mbembe–Legbo

Mbembe

Legbo: Legbo (Gbo), Nyima (Lenyima), Yigha (Leyigha)

Akpet: Ukpet-Ehom

Agoi, Doko (Uyanga), Iyongiyong (Bakpinka)

Kiong–Korop: Kiong (Kayon), Dorop (Korop), Odut



References

  1. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Upper Cross". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.