• Ibibio is the native language of the Ibibio people of Nigeria, belonging to the Ibibio-Efik dialect cluster of the Cross River languages. The name Ibibio...
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    The Ibibio people (Pronunciation: /ɪbɪˈbiːəʊ/) are a coastal people in Southern Nigeria. They are mostly found in Akwa Ibom, Cross River State and the...
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  • erroneously made the literary standard of the Ibibio language, though Ibibio proper has more native speakers. Efik-Ibibio is a dialect cluster spoken by about...
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  • Look up Ibibio in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ibibio may refer to: Ibibio language, Niger-Congo language of Nigeria Ibibio people an ethnic group...
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    Defaka. The Engenni language is spoken in the Ahoada-west region of Rivers State and Zarama community in Bayelsa State. The Ibibio language is spoken across...
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  • North-West of Cameroon. The Efik language is mutually intelligible with other lower Cross River languages such as Ibibio, Annang, Oro and Ekid but the degree...
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  • (Medefidrin), or Obɛri Ɔkaimɛ, is a constructed language and script created as a Christian sacred language by an Ibibio congregation in 1930s Nigeria. It has its...
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  • Dominica, which originated in West Africa particularly among the Efik and Ibibio people of Nigeria, and later evolved into calypso music. Kaiso music has...
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  • List of English words of Niger-Congo origin (category Articles containing Ibibio-language text)
    person", from Efik and Ibibio mbakara chigger – possibly from Wolof and/or Yoruba jiga "insect" cola – from West African languages (Temne kola, Mandinka...
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    this languages are spoken in Cross River State, Akwa Ibom state, Rivers State, Bayelsa State, Ebonyi State and Benue State. The Ibibio language is also...
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    Efik people (category Articles containing explicitly cited English-language text)
    who passed through the Ibibio country, others assert that the Efik are of Ibibio stock. Among the earliest proponents of the Ibibio origin theory was Consul...
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  • government areas (all in Akwa Ibom State). The primary language that is spoken is the ibibio language. The villages in Ikot Abasi include Essene, Ete, Uta...
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  • Ibini Ukpabi (category Articles containing Ibibio-language text)
    The Ibini Ukpabi (Ibibio: Drum of the Creator God) was an oracle of the Aro Confederacy of what is now south eastern Nigeria. It was known among the British...
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  • groups. Some of the popular languages spoken in Nigeria are listed as follows: Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, Kanuri, Ijaw, Ibibio, Edo, Fulfude, Tiv, and Urhobo...
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  • several more languages within the Efik-Ibibio cluster. (See Ibibio-Efik languages.) Forde and Jones (1950) considered Ibino and Oro to be Efik-Ibibio. Below...
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    The number of languages natively spoken in Africa is variously estimated (depending on the delineation of language vs. dialect) at between 1,250 and 2...
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    the Igbo language), okwukwo-wiri (in Ikwerre language), and ikong-ubong (in the Efik and Ibibio languages), "Akwukwor ri" (in Etche language). T. occidentalis...
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    earlier) Eskayan (Eskaya, c. 1920) Medefaidrin (Ibibio, 1930s) Palawa kani (Palawa, 1990s) An a posteriori language (from Latin a posteriori, "from the latter")...
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    African languages: Volta–Niger languages Owere language (Igboid): ɔ̀nà Yoruba language: èsúrú Ìjẹ̀bú language: èsè Benue–Congo languages Ibibio language: ánêm...
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  • of the LGA are the Ibibio people, who speak a dialect of the Ibibio language. The Ibibio language belongs to the Benue–Congo language family, which forms...
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  • Anaang (Annang) is the native language of the Anaang people of Nigeria. The Annang speaker of English tends to apply the grammatical rules of Annang in...
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  • Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation. Forde, C.D. and G.I. Jones 1950. The Ibo and Ibibio speaking peoples...
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    Imo River (category Articles containing Ibibio-language text)
    Imoh River, that is, Inyang Imoh, which translates to River of Wealth (Ibibio: Inyang means river or ocean, and Imoh means wealth). Its estuary is around...
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    Color term (category Articles containing Komi-language text)
    (turun vizh) 'grass yellow'. However, the Nigerian Ibibio language and the Philippine Hanunoo language both identify green instead of yellow. The Ovahimba...
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  • Ibuoro is an Ibibio-Efik language of Nigeria. Its dialects are Ibuoro proper, Ito, Itu Mbon Uzo and Nkari. Ibuoro proper at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)...
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  • areas and the capital city of Akwa Ibom in South South Nigeria. Ibibio is the language spoken in Uyo. It became the capital on September 23, 1987 when...
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  • (Eket) is an Ibibio-Efik language of Nigeria. Ekit at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Etebi at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Endangered Languages Project data...
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  • is a town in western Gabon. It is originally spoken in Fang language and Ibibio language as Āñdém (in correct form). It was incorrectly recorded by French...
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  • who dealt with the Ibibio people and their king, he had already earned the name "Nkporo" for his people, "Nkporo" is an Ibibio language which means "Buffalo"...
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  • dynamic, imaginative, industrious and intelligent. They generally speak Ibibio language and have a rich cultural heritage. Some of the cultural societies found...
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