Efik language
| Efik | |
|---|---|
| (Efik proper) | |
| Native to | Southern Nigeria |
| Region | Cross River State |
| Ethnicity | Efik |
Native speakers |
400,000 (1998)[1] Second language: 2 million (1998)[2] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 |
efi |
| ISO 639-3 |
efi |
| Glottolog |
efik1245[3] |
Efik /ˈɛfɪk/[4] proper, wrongly referred to as Riverain Ibibio,[5] is the native language of the Efik people of Nigeria, where it is a national language. It is the official language of Cross River State in Nigeria.
The language can be understood by the Ibibio speaking people of Akwa Ibom state (a neighboring state to Cross River State) and both are often thought of as the same language by non-speakers. Together with the Anaang and Ukwa languages, they form the Ibibio-Efik languages, a major dialect cluster.
It may survive in the diaspora in Cuba, in a creolized form used in the Abakuá secret society, which has its roots in the Efik Ekpe secret society in Nigeria.
It is one of the 3 languages to lack both /p/ and /g/.[6]
See also
References
- ↑ Efik at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Efik language at Ethnologue (14th ed., 2000).
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Efik". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh
- ↑ Okon E. Essien, 1986, Ibibio names: their structure and their meanings
- ↑ http://wals.info/valuesets/5A-efi
External links
| Official languages | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National languages | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Recognised languages | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Indigenous languages |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sign languages | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Scripts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 10/26/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.