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Lower Cross River languages

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Geographic distribution:
  
SE Nigeria

Glottolog:
  
obol1242

Subdivisions:
  
Obolo Ibibioid

Linguistic classification:
  
Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Cross River Lower Cross River

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.

  • Obolo
  • Lower Cross proper : Efik-Ibibio, Ibino (Ibeno), Oro (Oron), Okobo, Iko, Ebughu, Ilue, Enwang-Uda, Usaghade

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

    References

    Lower Cross River languages Wikipedia
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