HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

The Ogoni languages, or Kegboid languages, are the five languages of the Ogoni people of
Rivers State Rivers State, also known as Rivers, is a state in the Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria (Old Eastern Region). Formed in 1967, when it was split from the former Eastern Region, Rivers State borders include: Imo to the north, Abia and Akwa I ...
, Nigeria. They fall into two clusters, East and West, with a limited degree of mutual intelligibility between members of each cluster. The Ogoni think of the cluster members as separate languages, however. The classification of the Ogoni languages is as follows: * East: Khana and Tẹẹ, with around 1,800,000 speakers between them, and Gokana, with about 250,000. * West: Eleme, with about 90,000 speakers, and Baan, with around 50,500.


Names and locations

Below is a list of language names, populations, and locations from Blench (2019).


See also

* List of Proto-Ogoni reconstructions (Wiktionary)


References

*Blench, Roger and Kay Williamson. 2008.
The Ogoni languages: comparative word list and historical reconstructions
'. {{Niger-Congo branches Cross River languages Indigenous languages of Rivers State