The Full Wiki

More info on Abanyom language

Abanyom language: Wikis
  
  

Note: Many of our articles have direct quotes from sources you can cite, within the Wikipedia article! This article doesn't yet, but we're working on it! See more info or our list of citable articles.

Encyclopedia

Updated live from Wikipedia, last check: June 19, 2013 10:52 UTC (41 seconds ago)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Abanyom
Spoken in Nigeria
Region Cross River State
Total speakers 12,500
Language family Niger-Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-1 None
ISO 639-2 bnt
ISO 639-3 abm
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.

Abanyom is a language of the Ekoid subfamily of Niger-Congo. It is spoken by the Abanyom people in the Cross River State region of Nigeria, numbering about 12,500 people in 1986.[1] A member of the Southern Bantoid group, Abanyom is fairly closely related to the Bantu languages. It is tonal and has a typical Niger-Congo noun class system.

Sources

  1. ^ Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com/.

External links








Got something to say? Make a comment.
Your name
Your email address
Message