The Ogoni languages, or Kegboid languages, are the five languages of the Ogoni people of Rivers State, Nigeria.
They fall into two clusters, East and West, with a limited degree of mutual intelligibility between members of each cluster. The Ogoni think of the cluster members as separate languages, however.
The classification of the Ogoni languages is as follows:
East: Khana and Tẹẹ, with around 1,800,000 speakers between them, and Gokana, with about 250,000.
West: Eleme, with about 90,000 speakers, and Baan, with around 50,500.
The Ogonilanguages, or Kegboid languages, are the five languages of the Ogoni people of Rivers State, Nigeria. They fall into two clusters, East and West...
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or Ogoni proper, is the prestige variety of the Ogonilanguages of Rivers State, Nigeria. It is the lingua franca of speakers of the East Ogoni languages...
found in that language. The voiceless [w] is also found in other Ogonilanguages, and voiceless [j] and [l] are also found in other languages of Nigeria...
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Gokana (Gòkánà) is an Ogonilanguage spoken by some 130,000 people in Rivers State, Nigeria. Gokana has been argued to lack syllables, a radical claim...
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