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    The Ekoid languages are a dialect cluster of Southern Bantoid languages spoken principally in southeastern Nigeria and in adjacent regions of Cameroon...
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    Ekoi people (category Articles containing Ejagham-language text)
    found in Cross River State. The Ekoid languages are spoken around this area, although English (the national language) is also spoken. The Ejaham are spread...
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    Abanyom, or Bakor, is a language of the Ekoid subfamily of Niger–Congo. It is spoken by the Abanyom people in the Cross River State region of Nigeria...
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    The Jagham language, Ejagham, also known as Ekoi, is an Ekoid language of Nigeria and Cameroon spoken by the Ekoi people. The E- in Ejagham represents...
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    the Cross River languages, they may be a branch of Southern Bantoid, with observed similarities especially with the Ekoid languages. Very little research...
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  • As the closest relative of the Ekoid family of the Southern Bantoid languages, Mbe is fairly close to the Bantu languages. It is tonal and has a typical...
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    the various Narrow Bantu languages, Jarawan, Tivoid, Beboid, Mamfe (Nyang), Grassfields and Ekoid families. The Bendi languages are of uncertain classification;...
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    The Kajuk language, Ekajuk (also spelled Akajo and Akajuk), is an Ekoid language (of the Niger–Congo family) spoken in the Cross River State and some surrounding...
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    Ndoe, or Ekparabong is the most divergent of the Ekoid languages of Nigeria and Cameroon. Ndoe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)...
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    or originated as the Nsibidi system of writing for the Igboid and Ekoid languages from West and Central Africa. According to Milo Rigaud, "The veves...
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    there are numerous Bantoid languages, which are the languages immediately ancestral to Bantu. These include Mambiloid, Ekoid of Cross River State, Bendi...
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    The Futop language, Efutop (Ofutop), is an Ekoid language of Nigeria. The E- in Efutop represents the class prefix for "language", analogous to the Bantu...
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    Nkem-Nkum, or Isibiri, is an Ekoid language of Nigeria. There are two somewhat distinct dialects, Nkem (Nkim) and Nkum. Nkem-Nkum at Ethnologue (18th ed...
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    hypothetical language family spoken over the majority of sub-Saharan Africa. It unites the Mande languages, the Atlantic–Congo languages (which share...
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    Bantoid languages. The total number of Bantu languages is estimated at between 440 and 680 distinct languages, depending on the definition of "language" versus...
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    Eastern Beboid languages may be most closely related to the Tivoid and Momo groups. The Western Beboid languages may be closer to Ekoid and Bantu. Previous...
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    has over 500 languages (according to SIL Ethnologue), one of the greatest concentrations of linguistic diversity in the world. The languages of Africa belong...
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    Nnam is an Ekoid language of Nigeria. Nnam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Nnam basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database...
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    Nde-Nsele-Nta, or sometimes simply Nde, is an Ekoid language of Nigeria. There are three somewhat distinct dialects, Nde (60% of speakers), Nsele (Nselle)...
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    Niger–Congo languages. This latter group comprises one Senegambian language (Fulfulde), 28 Adamawa languages, and 142 Benue–Congo languages (130 of which...
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  • Eka (category Articles containing Estonian-language text)
    a tala in Carnatic music Eka language, a Loloish language of China Ekajuk language (ISO-639: eka), an Ekoid language of China Estonian Academy of Arts...
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  • Ekangaki Eugène Ekéké Marthe Ekemeyong Moumié Catherine Eko Ekoi people Ekoid languages Thierry Ekwalla Joseph Elanga Namata Henry Elangwe Elections in Cameroon...
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    the most important languages of southern Nigeria, Benin, Togo, and southeast Ghana: Yoruba, Igbo, Bini, and Gbe. These languages have variously been...
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    The Atlantic–Congo languages make up the largest demonstrated family of languages in Africa. They have characteristic noun class systems and form the core...
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    importance of the Kru languages for their position at the crossroads of African-European interaction. He wrote that "Kru and associated languages were among the...
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    The Gbe languages (pronounced [ɡ͡bè]) form a cluster of about twenty related languages stretching across the area between eastern Ghana and western Nigeria...
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    thought to be as follows: Bantoid–Cross languages Cross River Northern Bantoid Southern Bantoid Central Nigerian languages, also known as Platoid Jukunoid Kainji...
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  • the main language families of the world The language families of Africa Map of the Austronesian languages Map of major Dravidian languages Distribution...
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    of the Dagaare language are also found in Cameroon. The Samu languages of Burkina Faso are Gur languages. Like most Niger–Congo languages, the ancestor...
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    The Mande languages are a family of languages spoken in several countries in West Africa by the Mandé peoples. They include Maninka (Malinke), Mandinka...
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