Akoko language

(North) Akoko
Arigidi
Native to Nigeria
Region Ondo State
Native speakers
48,000 (1992)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 aqg
Glottolog arig1246[2]

North Akoko, usually abbreviated to Akoko and also known as Arigidi, is a dialect cluster spoken in Nigeria. It appears to form a branch of the "Yoruba–Edo–Akoko–Igbo" (YEAI) group of Niger–Congo languages.

References

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


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