Nkem-Nkum

Nkem-Nkum (Isibiri)
Spoken in	Nigeria (State of Cross River )
speaker	34,500 (1987)
Linguistic ; classification	Niger-Congo Atlantic – Congo Benue – Congo Bantoid languages South bantoid languages Ekoid languages Efutop – Ekajuk; ; ; ; ; Nkem-Nkum ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	isi

The Nkem-Nkum language (ISO 639-3: isi) is an ekoid language spoken by a total of 34,500 people in the Nigerian state of Cross River .

The language has the two dialects nkem (also called nkim, ogoja, ishibori, isibiri or ogboja ), which has 18,000 speakers, and nkum, which has a total of 16,500 speakers. The language belongs to the language group of the South Bantoid languages within the language family of the Niger-Congo languages .

Web links

Ethnologue

Individual evidence

↑ isi
↑ (1987 O. Asinya)
↑ Ethnologue

[1] si

[2] (1987 O. Asinya)

[3] Ethnologue