Bokyi language

Bokyi
Boki
Native toSoutheastern Nigeria, southwestern Cameroon
EthnicityBokyi people
Native speakers
280,000 (2005–2020)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3bky
Glottologboky1238

Bokyi (Boki, Nfua, Nki, Okii, Osikom, Osukam, Uki, Vaaneroki) is a regionally important Bendi language spoken by the Bokyi people of northern Cross River State, Nigeria. It is ranked amongst the first fifteen languages of the about 520 living languages in Nigeria, with a few thousand speakers in Cameroon.

Major dialects include Abu (Abo, Baswo), Irruan, Osokom (Okundi) and Wula.[2]

  1. ^ Bokyi at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Blench, Roger (2010). "The Bendi languages: more lost Bantu languages?" (PDF). p. 2.