Ekoid languages

Ekoid
Geographic
distribution		Southeastern Nigeria, northern Cameroon
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo?
Subdivisions
  • Ndoe
  • Ekoi
  • Efutop–Ekajuk
Language codes
Glottologekoi1236
The Ekoid languages (plus Mbe) shown within Nigeria and Cameroon:

Ekoid–Mbe:

  Mbe
Ekoid:
  Ndoe
(core):
  Ejagham
  Efutop
  Nde-Nsele-Nta
  Abanyom-Nkem-Nkum
  Ekajuk-Nnam

The Ekoid languages are a dialect cluster of Southern Bantoid languages spoken principally in southeastern Nigeria and in adjacent regions of Cameroon. They have long been associated with the Bantu languages, without their status being precisely defined. Crabb (1969)[1] remains the major monograph on these languages, although regrettably, Part II, which was to contain grammatical analyses, was never published. Crabb also reviews the literature on Ekoid up to the date of publication.

The nearby Mbe language is the closest relative of Ekoid[2] and forms with it the Ekoid–Mbe branch of Southern Bantoid.

  1. ^ Crabb, D.W. 1969. Ekoid Bantu Languages of Ogoja. Cambridge University Press
  2. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ekoid–Mbe". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.