Obolo
| Obolo | ||
|---|---|---|
|
Spoken in |
Nigeria ( Rivers and Akwa Ibom ) | |
| speaker | 200,000 | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo |
|
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
ann |
|
The Obolo language (also andone , andoni and andonni ; ISO 639-3 is ann ) is a language spoken by about 200,000 people in the Nigerian states of Rivers and Akwa Ibom .
The obolo is one of the 23 languages of the Obolo language group within the Cross River languages .
There are several dialects, including the eastern obolo (okoroete, ibot obolo), the western obolo (ataba, unyeada) and the dialect Ngo. Most of the Obolo now speak English as their mother tongue, some can still speak the second official language Igbo , but only a few learn the regional language Ibibio at school .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ ann
- ↑ (1996 National Population Commission)
- ↑ Ethnologue