Lower Cross River languages
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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.
Forde and Jones (1950) considered Ibino and Oro to be Ibibio-Efik.
Cross River languages
The Cross River or Delta–Cross languages are a branch of the Benue–Congo language family in south-easternmost Nigeria posited by Joseph Greenberg...
of Rivers State
Rivers State
Rivers State is one of the 36 states of Nigeria. Its capital is Port Harcourt. It is bounded on the South by the Atlantic Ocean, to the North by Imo, Abia and Anambra States, to the East by Akwa Ibom State and to the West by Bayelsa and Delta states...
, 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: 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.
External links
- Roger Blench, Comparative Lower Cross wordlist