Oko language

Oko
Ogori-Magongo
Native to Nigeria
Region Kogi State
Native speakers
40,000 (2006)[1]
Dialects
  • Oko
  • Eni
  • Osayen
Language codes
ISO 639-3 oks
Glottolog okoe1238[2]

Oko, also known as Ogori-Magongo and Oko-Eni-Osayen, is a dialect cluster spoken in Nigeria. It appears to form a branch of the "Nupe–Oko–Idoma" (noi) group of Niger–Congo languages. Most Oko speakers also speak Yoruba as a second language. The Language is spoken in and around the towns of Ogori and Magongo in southwestern Kogi State, close to the Ondo and Edo state borders.

References

  1. Oko at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Oko-Eni-Osayen". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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