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Mbembe language

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Mbembe
Native toNigeria
Native speakers
(100,000 cited 1982)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3mfn – inclusive code
Individual code:
oda – Odut village
Glottologcros1244
ELPOdut

Mbembe is a Cross River language of Nigeria. Odut,[2] a divergent variety spoken in a village far South of the rest of Mbembe, had 20 speakers in 1980 and may be extinct.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Mbembe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Odut village at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Blench (2013) An Atlas of Nigerian Languages
  3. ^ "Odut". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2017-07-26.