Upper Cross River languages

Upper Cross River
Upper Cross
Geographic
distribution		 SE Nigeria
Linguistic classification

Niger–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 Mbembe, 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)



References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Upper Cross". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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