The Idomoid languages are spoken primarily in Benue State of east-central Nigeria and surrounding regions. Idoma itself is an official language spoken by nearly four million people including the subgroups of Igede, Uffia, Otukpo, and Orokam.
2-468: Ethnologue includes Eloyi , though that assignment is outdated as Blench (2007) considers Eloyi to be a divergent Plateau language that has undergone Idomoid influence, rather than vice versa. Ethnologue also calls the non-Yace branch "Akweya", despite the fact that Yace are also called "Akweya". Below is a list of language names, populations, and locations from Blench (2019). [REDACTED] This article incorporates text available under
4-642: The CC BY 3.0 license. Eloyi language Eloyi , or Afu (Afo) or Ajiri , is a Plateau language of uncertain classification. It is spoken by the Eloyi people of Agatu LGA and Otukpo LGA of Benue State and Nassarawa State in Nigeria . Armstrong (1955, 1983) classified Eloyi as Idomoid , but that identification was based on a single word list and Armstrong later expressed doubts. Other preliminary accounts classify it as Plateau, and Blench (2008) leaves it as
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