Lower Cross River language

Ibibioid is one of the Niger-Congo family of languages. It is often referred to as the Ibibio-Efik or the Efik-Ibibio language. All the languages or dialects spoken in Akwa Ibom state and Cross River state belong to this Niger-Congo language family. 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 over 15 million speakers of the Efik-Ibibio cluster.