Iceve-Maci
| Iceve-Maci | ||
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Spoken in |
Nigeria , Cameroon | |
| speaker | 12,000 | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
bec |
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The language Iceve-Maci (also bacheve, bechere, becheve, icheve, ocebe, ochebe, ocheve, utse, utser, utseu; ISO 639-3: bec) is a bantoid language from the group of tivoid languages and is spoken by 12,000 people of which 7,000 (1990) in the Cameroon region southwest and 5,000 in the Nigerian state of Cross River (1990).
The dialects of the language are: icheve (also bacheve) and oliti (also maci, matchi, oliti-akwaya, olithi, olit, kwaya, akwaya motom, motomo, ihekwot). Evant [bzz], Denya-Kenyang [anv] and, lately, Cameroonian Pidginenglisch [wes] are also used as second languages .