Kalabari (language)
| Calabari | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Nigeria ( Rivers State ) | |
| speaker | 260,000 (in 1989) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
ijn |
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Kalabari is an ijoide language of the Kalabari people and one of the languages of Nigeria .
It belongs to the group of ijo languages and is therefore related to Kirike and Ibani , who together had 600,000 speakers in 1989.