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Upper Cross River languages

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Geographicdistribution
  
SE Nigeria

Glottolog
  
uppe1418

Linguistic classification
  
Niger–CongoAtlantic–CongoBenue–CongoCross RiverUpper Cross River

Subdivisions
  
CentralAkpetAgoi–Doko–IyoniyongKiong–Korop

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 Membe, with 100,000 speakers.

Languages

The internal structure per Cornell (1994), reproduced in Williamson and Blench (2000), is as follows:

References

Upper Cross River languages Wikipedia
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