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Nigbo is an extinct
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. It was spoken near Agameti on the Fadan Karshi-Wamba road near
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. The language, listed in Blench (2012) and (2019), is not reported in
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. It is presumably an Alumic language based on its proximity to Akpondu, a language closely related to Alumu and Tesu. The extinct languages Akpondu and Babur (Bəbər) were also spoken in nearby villages of Akpondu and Babur, respectively.Blench, Roger M. 2012
Akpondu, Nigbo, Bəbər and Nisam: moribund or extinct languages of central Nigeria Babur


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