Igboid languages constitute a branch of the
Volta–Niger language family. The subgroups are:
*
Ekpeye
* Nuclear Igboid:
Igbo
Igbo may refer to:
* Igbo people, an ethnic group of Nigeria
* Igbo language, their language
* anything related to Igboland, a cultural region in Nigeria
See also
* Ibo (disambiguation)
* Igbo mythology
* Igbo music
* Igbo art
*
* Igbo-Ukwu, a ...
,
Ikwerre,
Ika,
Ngwa
Ngwa people (''Ṅgwà'' ), an Igboid tribe in south eastern part of Nigeria. It's also the largest and most populous ethnic group in Abia state southeastern Nigeria. They occupy an area of about , although some accounts read at least . In 1979, t ...
,
Izii–
Ikwo–
Ezza
Ezaa or Ezza is a northeastern Igbo sub-group, in Ebonyi State, southeastern Nigeria. The Ezaa are direct descendants of Ezekuna, and his wife, Anyigo. They are therefore, often referred to as Ezaa Ezekuna. The group is found at the north of Af ...
–
Mgbo,
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.
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