Ogba language

Ogba
Region Rivers and Imo States, Nigeria
Ethnicity Ogba people
Native speakers
500,000 (2015)[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. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ogbah". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  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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