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1 Varieties  





2 See also  





3 Notes  





4 References  














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Ibibio
Central Lower Cross
EthnicityAnnang, Efik, Ibibio, Oro
Geographic
distribution
Cross River State, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo?
Subdivisions
Glottologefik1244

Central Ibibio is the major dialect cluster of the Cross River branch of Benue–Congo. Efik proper has national status in Nigeria and was erroneously made the literary standard of the Ibibio language, though Ibibio proper has more native speakers.

Varieties[edit]

Efik-Ibibio is a dialect cluster spoken by about 15 million people of Akwa Ibom State and about 5 million people of Cross River StatesofNigeria, making it the fifth largest language cluster in Nigeria after Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo and Fulani.

The major Efik-Ibibio languages are:

Minor varieties, according to Williamson and Blench,[a] are:

These arguably constitute a single language, though Ethnologue considers them to be separate.

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ These are varieties of what Williamson and Blench (2000) calls "Central Lower Cross", which they list as "Efik, Ibibio, Anaang, Ibuoro, Ekit, Efai, etc."

References[edit]


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Ibibio-Efik languages
Languages of Nigeria
Ibibio
Lower Cross River languages
 



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