Abanyom language

Abanyom
Bakor
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Cross River State
Native speakers	unknown (13,000 cited 1986)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Ekoid Efutop–Ekajuk Abanyom
Language codes
ISO 639-3	abm
Glottolog	aban1242[2]

Abanyom, or Bakor, is a language of the Ekoid subfamily of Niger–Congo. It is spoken by the Abanyom people in the Cross River State region of Nigeria. A member of the Southern Bantoid group, Abanyom is fairly closely related to the Bantu languages. It is tonal and has a typical Niger–Congo noun class system.

Sources

1. Abanyom at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Abanyom". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

• Asinya, O.E. 1987. A reconstruction of the Segmental phonology of Bakor (an Ekoid Bantu language). M.A. Linguistics, University of Port Harcourt

External links

• Abanyom basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database