Central Ibibio is the major dialect cluster of the Cross River branch of Benue–Congo . Efik proper has national status in Nigeria and was erroneously made the literary standard of the Ibibio language , though Ibibio proper has more native speakers.
1-629: Ekit (Eket) is an Ibibio-Efik language of Nigeria . This article about Cross River languages is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ibibio-Efik language Efik-Ibibio is a dialect cluster spoken by about 15 million people of Akwa Ibom State and about 5 million people of Cross River States of Nigeria , making it the fifth largest language cluster in Nigeria after Hausa , Yoruba , Igbo and Fulani . The major Efik-Ibibio languages are: Minor varieties, according to Williamson and Blench, are: These arguably constitute
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