Obolo | |
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Andoni | |
Native to | Nigeria |
Region | Rivers State, Akwa Ibom State |
Ethnicity | Obolo people |
Native speakers | 318,000 (2011)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | ann |
Glottolog | obol1243 |
Obolo (or Andoni) is a major Cross River language of Nigeria. Obolo is the indigenous name of a community in the eastern Delta of the River Niger, better known as Andoni (the origin of this latter name being uncertain).[2] Obolo refers to the people, the language as well as the land. It is an agglutinative, an SVO and a tonal language.