The Lower Cross River languages form a branch of the
Cross River languages of
Cross River State,
Nigeria. They consist of the divergent
Obolo language (or Andoni, 200,000 speakers), and the core of the branch, which includes the 4 million speakers of the
Efik-Ibibio
Central Ibibio is the major dialect cluster of the Cross River branch of Benue–Congo. Efik proper has national status in Nigeria and is the literary standard of the Efik languages, though Ibibio proper has more native speakers.
Varieties
Ef ...
cluster.
*
Obolo
*Lower Cross proper:
Efik-Ibibio
Central Ibibio is the major dialect cluster of the Cross River branch of Benue–Congo. Efik proper has national status in Nigeria and is the literary standard of the Efik languages, though Ibibio proper has more native speakers.
Varieties
Ef ...
,
Ibino (Ibeno),
Oro
Oro or ORO, meaning gold in Spanish and Italian, may refer to:
Music and dance
* Oro (dance), a Balkan circle dance
* Oro (eagle dance), an eagle dance from Montenegro and Herzegovina
* "Oro" (song), the Serbian entry in the 2008 Eurovision S ...
(Oron),
Okobo,
Iko,
Ebughu,
Ilue,
Enwang-Uda,
Usaghade
Additionally, ''Ethnologue'' lists several more languages within the Efik-Ibibio cluster. (See
Ibibio-Efik languages
Central Ibibio is the major dialect cluster of the Cross River branch of Benue–Congo. Efik proper has national status in Nigeria and is the literary standard of the Efik languages, though Ibibio proper has more native speakers.
Varieties
Ef ...
.)
Forde and Jones (1950) considered
Ibino and
Oro
Oro or ORO, meaning gold in Spanish and Italian, may refer to:
Music and dance
* Oro (dance), a Balkan circle dance
* Oro (eagle dance), an eagle dance from Montenegro and Herzegovina
* "Oro" (song), the Serbian entry in the 2008 Eurovision S ...
to be Efik-Ibibio.
Names and locations
Below is a list of language names, populations, and locations from Blench (2019).
Reconstructions
Proto-Lower Cross River has been reconstructed by Connell (n.d.)
[Connell, Bruce. n.d]
Comparative Lower Cross wordlist
See also
*
List of Proto-Lower Cross River reconstructions (Wiktionary)
References
Further reading
*Connell, Bruce. n.d
Comparative Lower Cross wordlist Unpublished manuscript.
{{Niger-Congo branches
Cross River languages