Bokyi language
Bokyi | |
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Boki | |
Native to | Southeastern Nigeria, southwestern Cameroon |
Ethnicity | Bokyi people |
Native speakers | (140,000 cited 1989)[1] |
Niger–Congo?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bky |
Glottolog | boky1238 |
Bokyi (Boki, Nfua, Nki, Okii, Osikom, Osukam, Uki, Vaaneroki) is a regionally important Bendi language spoken by the Bokyi people of northern Cross River State, Nigeria. It is ranked amongst the first fifteen languages of the about 520 living languages in Nigeria, with a few thousand speakers in Cameroon.
Major dialects include Abu (Abo, Baswo), Irruan, Osokom (Okundi) and Wula.[2]
References[]
- ^ Bokyi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Blench, Roger (2010). "The Bendi languages: more lost Bantu languages?" (PDF). p. 2.
Categories:
- Bendi languages
- Languages of Nigeria
- Benue–Congo language stubs