The Lower Cross River languages form a branch of the Cross River languages of Cross River State, Nigeria, within the Niger-Congo family. The branch consists of the divergent Obolo, or Andoni, language and a core Efik-Ibibio cluster with over 15 million speakers.
Facts
RegionSoutheastern Nigeria and lower southwest Cameroon 2 Proto-Language StatusProto-Lower Cross River reconstructed by Connell (unpublished) 2 Browse and compare
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Number of Languages In the Other Atlases
Found In
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Sources
1. Glottolog: Lower Cross (languoid record)
GlottologLanguoid record: child_language_count
"child_language_count": 23
Languoid record: level and category
"level": "family", "bookkeeping": false, "category": "Family"
View the Source 2. Lower Cross River languages, Wikipedia
Infobox: region
Nigeria; Roughly west of the Imo estuary to east of the Cross estuary. lower Southwest Cameroon
Reconstructions
Proto-Lower Cross River has been reconstructed by Connell (n.d.)
Article text
Proto-Lower Cross River has been reconstructed by Connell (n
View the SourceWikidata: Lower Cross River languages
Wikidata Q3813193, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
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