The Lower Cross River languages form a branch of the Cross River languages of Cross River 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.
2-481: 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. Below is a list of language names, populations, and locations from Blench (2019). Proto-Lower Cross River has been reconstructed by Connell (n.d.) [REDACTED] This article incorporates text available under
4-705: The CC BY 3.0 license. Ibibio-Efik languages 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. Efik-Ibibio is a dialect cluster spoken by about 15 million people of Akwa Ibom State and about 5 million people of Cross River States of Nigeria , making it
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