Obolo language
Obolo | |
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Andoni | |
Native to | Nigeria |
Region | Rivers State, Akwa Ibom State |
Ethnicity | Obolo people |
Native speakers | 318,000 (2011)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | ann |
Glottolog | obol1243 |
Obolo, or Andoni, is a major Cross River language of Nigeria.
Obolo literature[]
- The Bible in Obolo was published by the Obolo Language and Bible Translation Organization in 2012. Obolo is the 23rd Nigerian language to have the complete Bible.[2]
- An Obolo-language website was launched in 2016.[3]
- The first literary material on Literature in the Mother-Tongue; a novel for Junior Secondary Schools and public readership, "Mbuban Îchaka" by Isidore Ene-Awaji © Obolo Language & Bible Translation Project, was published in 2010.[4]
Writing System[]
a | b | ch | d | e | f | g | gb |
gw | i | j | k | kp | kw | l | m |
n | n̄ | nw | ny | o | ọ | p | r |
s | (sh) | t | u | (v) | w | y | (z) |
The characters in bracket are dialect-specific.
Obolo is a tone language. There are five tones in the language: low, high, mid, falling and rising tone.[8] In writing, only the low tone and falling tone are indicated.[9]
References[]
- ^ NBS (2011) Annual Abstract of Statistics. National Bureau of Statistics. Federal Republic of Nigeria. p. 26,64
- ^ The 23rd Nigerian Language to Receive the Whole Bible https://web.archive.org/web/20190826001428/http://obolo.ngbible.com/about
- ^ http://www.obololanguage.org
- ^ History of OLBTO https://obololanguage.org/ann/%C3%B2folek-olbto/mfufuk-ofolek-ikwaan%CC%84-usem-obolo-olbto-1984-2014
- ^ Obololanguage.org 2015.
- ^ "Reading and Writing Obolo: Obolo Alphabet" in "A Workshop Manual for Teaching Obolo." Pg. 1. © Obolo Language and Bible Translation Organisation (OLBTO), 2011.
- ^ "Reading and Writing Obolo." Pg. 4. Andoni Language Committee and Rivers Readers Project, 1978.
- ^ "Reading and Writing Obolo: Tone Marking" in "A Workshop Manual for Teaching Obolo." Pg. 1. © Obolo Language and Bible Translation Organisation (OLBTO), 2011.
- ^ "Reading and Writing Obolo: About Marking of Tones in Bible" in "A Workshop Manual for Teaching Obolo." Pg. 9. © Obolo Language and Bible Translation Organisation (OLBTO), 2011.
Obolo language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator |
Categories:
- Indigenous languages of Rivers State
- Lower Cross River languages
- Languages of Nigeria
- Benue–Congo language stubs