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Ezaa language

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Region
  
Ebonyi State, Nigeria

Native speakers
  
590,000 (2012)

Glottolog
  
ezaa1238

Ethnicity
  
Ezaa people

ISO 639-3
  
eza

Language family
  
Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Volta–Niger yeai Igboid Igbo Izi–Ezaa–Ikwo–Mgbo Ezaa

Ezaa (Ezza, Eza) is an Igbo language spoken in Ebonyi state in Nigeria. It forms a dialect cluster with closely related Izii, Ikwo, and Mgbo, though they are only marginally mutually intelligible.

References

Ezaa language Wikipedia