The Kajuk language, ''Ekajuk'' (also spelled ''Akajo'' and ''Akajuk''), is an
Ekoid language
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 ...
(of the
Niger–Congo family) spoken in the
Cross River State
)
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and some surrounding regions of
Nigeria
Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of G ...
.
The Ekajuk are one of several peoples who use the
nsibidi
Nsibidi (also known as nsibiri, nchibiddi or nchibiddy) is a system of symbols or proto-writing developed in what is now the far South of Nigeria.
They are classified as pictograms, though there have been suggestions that some are logograms or sy ...
ideographs.
References
External links
Sample paragraph in EkajukEkajuk basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
Ekoid languages
Languages of Nigeria
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