Lower Cross River | |
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Lower Cross, Ibibioid | |
Geographic distribution |
SE Nigeria |
Linguistic classification |
Niger–Congo
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Subdivisions |
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Glottolog | obol1242 |
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.
Additionally, Ethnologue lists several more languages within the Efik-Ibibio cluster. (See Ibibio-Efik languages.)
Forde and Jones (1950) considered Ibino and Oro to be Efik-Ibibio.