Efutop

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Efutop

Spoken in

Nigeria
speaker 10,000
Linguistic
classification

Niger-Congo

Language codes
ISO 639-3

ofu

The Efutop language (also called Agbaragba and Ofutop ; ISO 639-3: ofu) is an ekoid language spoken by 10,000 people in the Nigerian state of Cross River .

It belongs to the language family of the Niger-Congo languages and, together with the ekoid languages, forms the group of the south bantoid languages .

The language is the mother tongue of the ethnic group of the Efutop (or Ofutop or Agbaragba), who are mainly farmers.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ofu
  2. (1973 SIL)
  3. Ethnologue (16th)
  4. ^ The peoples of Africa: an ethnohistorical dictionary