Ogba language

Ogba
Region Ebonyi and Benue States, Nigeria
Ethnicity Ogba people
Native speakers
170,000 (1993)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ogc
Glottolog ogba1241[2]

Ogba (also Oba, Ogbah) is a dialect of the standard Igbo spoken by the Ogba people of Nigeria.[3] It is generally known as one of the Igboid languages.[4] [3]


References

  1. Ogba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ogbah". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. 1 2 Ọgba Language Committee (August 11, 2013). "A DICTIONARY OF ỌGBÀ, AN IGBOID LANGUAGE OF SOUTHERN NIGERIA" (PDF). www.rogerblench.info. Roger Blench, Kay Williamson Educational Foundation, Cambridge, UK. p. 3. Retrieved April 21, 2016.
  4. "The Ogbah Language". 2008-12-26. Retrieved 2008-12-26.


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