Futop language

Efutop
Native toNigeria
RegionCross River State
Native speakers
(10,000 cited 1973)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3ofu
Glottologefut1242

The Futop language, Efutop (Ofutop), is an Ekoid language of Nigeria. The E- in Efutop represents the class prefix for "language", analogous to the Bantu ki- in KiSwahili.

One of a number of similar but distinct languages spoken in the Cross River region, its area includes the town of Abaragba as well as Ekpokpa, Mkpura, Ndim, Okanga-Nkpansi, Okanga-Njimowan, and Okosura. The vocabulary for David W. Crabb's item in Ekoid Bantu Languages of Ogoja was from Mr. Anthony A. Eyam of Abaragba.[2]

  1. ^ Efutop at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ David W. Crabb, Ekoid Bantu Languages of Ogoja, Cambridge University Press, 1965.