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Upper Cross River languages

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The Upper Cross River languages are a branch of the Cross River languages, part of the Niger-Congo family, spoken in Cross River State in southeastern Nigeria. The group's most populous members are Loko and Mbembe, each with about 100,000 speakers, alongside further languages organized into the Central, Akpet, Agoi-Doko-Iyoniyong and Kiong-Korop clusters.

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Proto-Language Status
A reconstruction of Proto-Upper Cross River has been proposed (Dimmendaal 1978) 1
Sources
1. Upper Cross River languages, Wikipedia
Reconstruction section
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