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Preferred term

abmAbanyom  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Abanyom is a language of the Ekoid subfamily of Niger–Congo. It is spoken by the Abanyom people in the Cross River State region of Nigeria, numbering about 12,500 people in 1986. A member of the Southern Bantoid group, Abanyom is fairly closely related to the Bantu languages. It is tonal and has a typical Niger–Congo noun class system.

Entry terms

  • Abanyom language

ISO 639-3 code

  • abm

Notation

  • abm

In other languages

  • Abanyom

    German

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/abm

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