Igede
| Igede | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Benue , central Nigeria | |
| speaker | 250,000 (1991) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
ige |
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The Igede language is spoken by the Igede people of around 250,000 people in the Nigerian states of Benue and Cross River . It is an idomoid language and therefore related to the idoma .
Chief means in Igede Adikobia 1 from Ameka-Owo ie Joseph Ojebong Ogbaji.
In 1981 a grammar about the Igede was published.
literature
- John O. Adimah: Let's read Igede . Duncanville, Tx. 1979.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ethnologue report for Igede
- ^ Richard Bergman: An outline of Igede grammar (Language Data. Africa Series; Vol. 15). Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas, Tx. 1981, ISBN 0-88312-715-6 .