Bokyi
| Boki (Bokyi) | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Nigeria , Cameroon | |
| speaker | 140,000 (1989) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
bky |
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The language Bokyi (ISO 639-3: bky; also boki, nfua, nki, okii, osikom, osukam, uki, vaaneroki) is a bantoid cross-language from the language group of the cross-river languages .
It is spoken by a total of 140,000 people in the Nigerian state of Cross River and by 3,700 people in Cameroon .
Together with eight other languages, the Bokyi forms the subgroup of the Bendi languages. There are many dialects of the language used in Nigeria are basua (bashua), irruan (erwan, eerwee), boje (bojie), kwakwagom, nsadop, osokom, wula (baswo, okundi, kecwan), oku, boorim, oyokom, abo (abu) and the eastern Bokyi (eastern Boki), those in Cameroon are basua, boki and iruan.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ bky
- ↑ (1989 SIL)
- ↑ Ethnologue