Kajuk language

Ekajuk
Native to	Nigeria
Native speakers	63,000 (2008)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Ekoid Efutop–Ekajuk Ekajuk–Nnam Ekajuk
Writing system	Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-2	`eka`
ISO 639-3	`eka`
Glottolog	`ekaj1238`^[2]

The Kajuk language, Ekajuk (also spelled Akajo and Akajuk), is an Ekoid language (of the Niger–Congo family) spoken in the Cross River State and some surrounding regions of Nigeria.

The Ekajuk are one of several peoples who use the nsibidi ideographs.

References

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

External links

Sample paragraph in Ekajuk
Ekajuk basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database

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