Dialects
There are six major dialect groups in the language, namely: (from west to east): Ataba, Unyeada, Ngo, Okoroete, Iko and Ibot Obolo. Ngo is the prestige dialect, hence the standard literary form of Obolo draws heavily from it.Obolo literature
* The Bible in Obolo was published by the Obolo Language and Bible Translation Organization in 2012. Obolo is the 23rd Nigerian language to have the complete Bible. * An Obolo-language website was launched in 2016. * The first literary material on Literature in the Mother-Tongue; a novel for Junior Secondary Schools and public readership, ''"Mbuban Îchaka"'' by Isidore Ene-Awaji © Obolo Language & Bible Translation Project, was published in 2010.Writing System
Obolo language is written in the Latin script. The alphabet is as follows: * The characters in bracket are dialect-specific. * Tone marks can be added to some letters. The tone bearers are the vowels ''a, e, i, o, ọ, u'' as well as ''m'' and ''n''. Obolo is a tone language. There are five tones in the language: low, high, mid, falling and rising tone. In writing, only the low tone and falling tone are indicated."Reading and Writing Obolo: About Marking of Tones in Bible" in "A Workshop Manual for Teaching Obolo." Pg. 9. © Obolo Language and Bible Translation Organisation (OLBTO), 2011. Tones are marked compulsorily on the first syllables of verbs and verbal groups. For other classes of words, a standard literature will show the way to go.References
Indigenous languages of Rivers State Lower Cross River languages Languages of Nigeria {{CrossRiver-lang-stub