Mbembe language

Mbembe
Native to Nigeria
Native speakers
(100,000 cited 1982)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mfninclusive code
Individual code:
oda  Odut village[3]
Glottolog cros1244[4]

Mbembe is a Cross River language of Nigeria. Odut, a divergent variety spoken in a village far South of the rest of Mbembe, had 20 speakers in 1980 and may be extinct.[5]

References

  1. Mbembe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Odut village[2] at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Blench (2013) An Atlas of Nigerian Languages
  3. Blench (2013) An Atlas of Nigerian Languages
  4. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Cross River Mbembe". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  5. "Odut". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2017-07-26.


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