Ekpeye

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Ogba

Spoken in

Nigeria
speaker 30,000
Linguistic
classification

Niger-Congo

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

  1. Ethnologue
  2. (1973 SIL)