Ekpeye
Ogba | ||
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Spoken in |
Nigeria | |
speaker | 30,000 | |
Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-3 |
ekp |
The Ekpeye language (ISO 639-3: ekp; Ekpabya, Ekkpahia, Ekpaffia) is an igboid individual language spoken by around 30,000 people from the Ekpeye people in the southern Nigerian state of Rivers .
Ekpeye is related to Igbo and has several dialects: ako, upata, ubye and igbuduya.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ethnologue
- ↑ (1973 SIL)