Futop language

Efutop
Native to Nigeria
Region Cross River State
Native speakers
unknown (10,000 cited 1973)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ofu
Glottolog efut1242[2]

The Futop language, Efutop (Ofutop), is an Ekoid language of Nigeria. The E- represents the Bantu prefix (KiSwahili ki-), the class prefix for languages.

One of a number of similar but distinct languages spoken in the Cross River region, its area includes the town of Abaragba as well as Ekpokpa, Mkpura, Ndim, Okanga-Nkpansi, Okanga-Njimowan, and Okosura. The vocabulary for David W. Crabb's item in Ekoid Bantu Languages of Ogoja was from Mr. Anthony A. Eyam of Abaragba.[3]

Significant tone is important in this language.

Some vocabulary (in a simplified orthography, without tone markings):

References

  1. Efutop at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Efutop". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. David W. Crabb, Ekoid Bantu Languages of Ogoja, Cambridge University Press, 1965.
  4. David W. Crabb, Ekoid Bantu Languages of Ogoja, Cambridge University Press, 1965.

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