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Izi language information


Izi
Izii
Native toNigeria
RegionEbonyi State
Native speakers
540,000 (2012)[1]
Language family
Niger–Congo?
  • Atlantic–Congo
    • Volta–Niger
      • yeai
        • Igboid
          • Nuclear Igboid
            • Izi–Ezaa–Ikwo–Mgbo
              • Izi
Writing system
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3izz
Glottologizii1239
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Izi (Izii, Izzi) is an Igboid language spoken in Ebonyi state in Nigeria.[2] It forms a dialect cluster with the closely related languages Ikwo, Ezza, and Mgbo.

  1. ^ Izi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Paul Meier, Inge Meier & John Bendor-Samuel, A Grammar of Izi: An Igbo Language, Summer Institute of Linguistics (1975)

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