Oruma language

Oruma
Native to Nigeria
Region Rivers State
Native speakers
5,000 (1995)[1]
Niger–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 orr
Glottolog orum1241[2]

Oruma is one of three small Inland Ijaw languages of Nigeria. According to Ethnologue, it is not fully intelligible with other varieties of Inland Ijaw.

References

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


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