Yace
| Yace | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Benue , Nassarawa (Central Nigeria) | |
| speaker | 50,000 | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
ekr |
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The Yace language (ISO 639-3: ekr; also known as ekpari, iyace, yache and yatye) is an idomoid language that is spoken by a total of 50,000 people (as of 2002) in the Nigerian state of Cross River in the LGA Yala .
It belongs to the language group of the Benue-Congo languages .
In terms of vocabulary, the language is most closely related to Akpa and forms with it the subgroup yatye-Akpa. The dialects are alifokpa and ijiegu. The ethnic group that speaks this language is called Ekpari and they are increasingly speaking English as their mother tongue. However, many Ekpari can also speak Yala [yba], Bekwarra [bkv], Tiv [tiv] and Igede [ige] as a second language.