Igboid languages constitute a branch of the
Volta–Niger language family. The subgroups are:
*
Ekpeye
Ekpeye people also known as Ekpeye Kingdom (An Igbo sub group) claim to have fled Bini to settle in Rivers State, Niger Delta, Nigeria. However, they speak an igboid language and dialect have no similarity to the aforementioned claim of migrati ...
* Nuclear Igboid:
Igbo,
Ikwerre,
Ika,
Ngwa,
Izii–
Ikwo
The Ikwo is a subgroup of the Igbo people who live in southeastern Nigeria. The area is rich in mineral resources, and the ancestors of today’s inhabitants developed bronze-casting techniques over a thousand years ago, some found in the town of ...
–
Ezza–
Mgbo,
Ogba and
Ukwuani-Aboh-Ndoni
Williamson and
Blench conclude that the Nuclear Igboid languages (Igboid apart from Ekpeye) form a "language cluster" and that they are somewhat
mutually intelligible
In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort. It is sometimes used as a ...
.
However, mutual intelligibility is only marginal, even among the Izii–Ikwo–Ezaa–Mgbo languages.
Igboid speakers are about 60 million people.
[http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/2012-078.pdf ]
Names and locations
Below is a list of language names, populations, and locations from Blench (2019).
See also
*
List of Proto-Igboid reconstructions (Wiktionary)
References
*Blench, Roger. 2016
A reconstruction of the phonology of proto-Igboid
{{Niger-Congo branches
Volta–Niger languages