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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 ...
EzzaMgbo, 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