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.
Facts
RegionSoutheastern Nigeria and adjacent regions of Cameroon 1 Proto-Language StatusProto-Ekoid reconstructed (Watters 1981) 1 In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Africa, found in there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Ekoid languages
Lead paragraph
Ekoid languages are spoken principally in southeastern Nigeria and in adjacent regions of Cameroon.
Reconstruction section
Proto-Ekoid is reconstructed with the following vowels and tones: */i e ɛ a ɔ o u/; high, low, rising, falling, and downstep.
View the SourceWikidata: Ekoid languages
Wikidata Q1323395, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
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