Futop language

Efutop
Efutop
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Cross River State
Native speakers	(10,000 cited 1973)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Ekoid Efutop–Ekajuk Efutop; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ofu
Glottolog	efut1242

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]

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

[e18-1] Efutop at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] David W. Crabb, Ekoid Bantu Languages of Ogoja, Cambridge University Press, 1965.

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