Igboid languages
Encyclopedia
Igboid languages constitute a branch of the Volta–Niger language family. It includes Ekpeye and the Igbo languages:
spoken mainly in southern Nigeria
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- Ekpeye
- Igbo: IgboIgbo languageIgbo , or Igbo proper, is a native language of the Igbo people, an ethnic group primarily located in southeastern Nigeria. There are approximately 20 million speakers that are mostly in Nigeria and are primarily of Igbo descent. Igbo is a national language of Nigeria. It is written in the Latin...
proper, Ikwerre, Ika, IziIzi languageIzi is an Igbo dialect spoken in Ebonyi state in Nigeria by approximately 200,000 people, or 600,000 including the closely related to Ikwo, Ezza, and Mgbo, which form a dialect cluster known as Izi-Ezaa-Ikwo-Mgbo. This language will be referred to simply as Izi.- Demographics :Speakers of the Izi...
(Izi–Ezaa–Ikwo–Mgbo), OgbaOgba languageOgba is a language of the Ogba people of Nigeria. It is an Igboid language....
, and Ukwuani-Aboh-NdoniUkwuani-Aboh-Ndoni languageUkwuani, Aboh, and Ndoni are a cluster of Igboid dialects of Nigeria....
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spoken mainly in southern Nigeria
Nigeria
Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...
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