The Upper Cross River languages form a branch of the Cross River languages of Cross River State, Nigeria. The most populous languages are Lokö and Mbembe, with 100,000 speakers.

Languages

The internal structure per Cornell (1994), reproduced in Williamson and Blench (2000), is as follows:

Names and locations

Below is a list of language names, populations, and locations from Blench (2019).


Reconstruction

A reconstruction of Proto-Upper Cross River has been proposed by Gerrit Dimmendaal (1978).

See also

  • List of Proto-Upper Cross River reconstructions (Wiktionary)

References

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External links

  • ComparaLex, database with Upper Cross River word lists

Cross River Cultural Heritage reports from home and from the African

Drainage map of the upper Cross River basin. Source Author. Download

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Cross River State town of Ogoja is under severe invasion by ritualists

How to cross a river and when not to Advnture