Lower Cross River languages

Lower Cross River
Lower Cross, Ibibioid
Geographic
distribution
SE Nigeria
Linguistic classification

Niger–Congo

Subdivisions
  • Obolo
  • Lower Cross proper (Ibibioid)
Glottolog obol1242[1]

The Lower Cross River languages 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 Efik-Ibibio cluster.[2]

Additionally, Ethnologue lists several more languages within the Efik-Ibibio cluster. (See Ibibio-Efik languages.)

Forde and Jones (1950) considered Ibino and Oro to be Efik-Ibibio.

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Lower Cross". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Essien, Okon (1990). A grammar of the Ibibio language. Ibadan, Nigeria: University Press Limited.


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