Ejagham
| Ekoi (Ejagham) | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Cameroon , Nigeria | |
| speaker | 120,000 (as of 2000) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
etu |
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Ekoi (also Ejagham ; ISO 639-3: etu) is a bantoid language which is spoken by a total of 116,000 people, 67,300 of them in Nigeria (here in the state of Cross River ) and 49,400 in Cameroon (in the southwest region ).
Ekoi has three dialects: Istocni, Zapadni and Juzni. The ekoid languages are named after her and she has the most speakers in this group.
Ejagham belongs to the African language family of the Niger-Congo languages , to the subgroup of the ekoid languages within the southern bantoid languages . The language bears some resemblance to the Efik and Ibibio languages . Nevertheless, the speakers of the Ejagham use English or French to converse with these peoples, since these two languages are the only official languages of Cameroon.