Agwagwune

Agwagwune
Spoken in	Nigeria
speaker	20,000 (in 1973)
Linguistic classification	Niger-Congo Atlantic – Congo South Volta Congo East Benue Congo Bantoid cross-languages Cross river Agwagwune
Language codes
ISO 639-3	yay

The Agwagwune language (agwaguna, “akunakuna”, akurakura, gwune, okurikan; ISO 639-3 is yay) is a language from the Niger-Congo language family with a total of 20,000 speakers in the Nigerian state of Cross River .

The Bible was translated into the Agwagwune language in 1894.

The dialects of the language are abayongo (bayono, bayino), abini (obini, abiri), adim (odim, dim), orum, erei (“enna”, ezei), agwagwune and etono (etuno). Together with the languages Kohumono [bcs] and Umon [umm], it forms the language group of the Kohumono languages ​​within the Cross-River languages .

Web links

• Ethnologue

Individual evidence

1. ↑ yay
2. ↑ (1973 SIL)
3. ↑ Ethnologue (16th)