Okodia

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Okodia (Akita)

Spoken in

Nigeria ( Rivers State )
speaker 3,600 (1977)
Linguistic
classification

Niger-Congo

Language codes
ISO 639-3

okd

The language Okodia (ISO 639-3: okd; also called okordia ) is an ijoide language from the family of Niger-Congo languages , which is spoken by a total of 3,600 people in the Nigerian state of Bayelsa in the local government area of Yenagoa .

The language spoken by the Buseni ethnic group , together with the Oruma [orr] language, forms the subgroup of the Inland Ijo languages .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. okd
  2. (Voegelin and Voegelin 1977)
  3. Ethnologue (16th)