Boki language

Boki
Bokyi
Native to	Nigeria
Native speakers	unknown (140,000 cited 1989)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid? Bendi Boki
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`bky`
Glottolog	`boky1238`^[2]

Boki (Bokyi, Nfua, Nki, Okii, Osikom, Osukam, Uki, Vaaneroki) is a regionally important language spoken by the Bokyi people of northern Cross River State, Nigeria. It is ranked amongst the first fifteen languages of the about 505 living languages in Nigeria, with a few thousand speakers in Cameroon.

References

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

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