Igboid languages constitute a branch of the
Volta–Niger language family.
Williamson and
Blench conclude that the Igboid languages form a "language cluster" that are somewhat
mutually intelligible
In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between different but related language varieties in which speakers of the different varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort. Mutual intellig ...
. Igboid languages are being spoken by over 40 million people.
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