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Ejagham

A language of Nigeria

ISO 639-3: etu

Population	67,300 in Nigeria (2000). Population total all countries: 116,700.
Region	Cross River state, Akampka, Idom, Odukpani, Calabar LGAs. Also in Cameroon.
Language map	Nigeria, Map 10, reference number 470
Alternate names	Ekoi
Dialects	Southern Ejagham (Ekin, Qua, Kwa, Aqua, Abakpa), Western Ejagham, Eastern Ejagham.
Classification	Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Ekoid
Language development	Radio programs. TV. Grammar. NT: 1997.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Western Ejagham includes Bendeghe Etung (Bindege, Dindiga, Mbuma), Northern Etung, Southern Etung, Ekwe, Akamkpa-Ejagham. Eastern Ejagham includes Keaka (Keaqa, Kejaka, Edjagam), Obang (Eeafeng).

Also spoken in:

Cameroon

Language name	Ejagham
Population	49,400 in Cameroon (2000).
Region	South West Province, Manyu Division, Eyumodjok Subdivision; south Mamfe Subdivision west of Mamfe.
Language map	Southwestern Cameroon, Enlarged Area, reference number 174
Alternate names	Edjagam, Ejagam, Ejaham, Ejwe, Ekoi, Etung, Keaka, Kwa, Obang
Dialects	Western Ejagham, Eastern Ejagham, Southern Ejagham (Ekin, Kwa, Qua, Aqua, Abakpa).
Language development	NT: 1997.
Comments	Western Ejagham includes Bendeghe Etung (Bindege, Dindiga, Mbuma), Northern Etung, Southern Etung, Ekwe, Akamkpa-Ejagham. Eastern Ejagham includes Keaka (Keaqa, Kejaka, Edjagam), Obang (Eeafeng).

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BENDOR-SAMUEL, John T., author. 1966. "Grammatical prosodies??."

BENDOR-SAMUEL, John T.; EDMONDSON, Thomas, authors. 1966. "Tone patterns of Etung."

EDMONDSON, Eileen, author. 1966. "Nouns of Etung classified by their singular-plural prefix pairs."

EDMONDSON, Eileen; EDMONDSON, Thomas, authors. 1971. "Some dialect shifts in Ejagham."

EDMONDSON, Eileen; EDMONDSON, Thomas, authors. 1977. Preliminary notes towards a phonological description of Etung (Ejagham).

EDMONDSON, Thomas, author. 1966. "Preliminary description of some verb structures in Etung."

MBANJI, Bawe Ernest, illustrator; GFELLER, Elisabeth, editor. 1990. Multilingual Cameroon: Reader in Cameroonian languages = Cameroun multilingue: Lectures en langues camerounaises .

PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1966. Tagmemic and matrix linguistics applied to selected African languages.

PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1970. Tagmemic and matrix linguistics applied to selected African languages.  

STALDER, Jürg, author. 1989. An assessment of intelligibility in the Ejagham community.  

WATTERS, John R., author. 1980. "The Ejagam noun class system: Ekoid Bantu revisited."

WATTERS, John R., author. 1981. A phonology and morphology of Ejagham, with notes on dialect variation.  

WATTERS, John R., author. 1982. "Problems in developing an Ejagham orthography."

WATTERS, John R., author. 1983. "The expression of the locative semantic function in (Western) Ejagham."

WATTERS, John R., author. 1985. "The inclusive/exclusive distinction in Ejagham."

WATTERS, John R., author. 1985. "The place of morphology in functional grammar: the case of the Ejagham verb system."

WATTERS, John R., author. 1990. "Reduplication and the origin of high tone on noun prefixes in Ejagham."

WATTERS, John R., author. 2000. "Tone in Western Ejagham (Etung): the case of lexical and postlexical tone on nouns."

WATTERS, John R., author. 2001. "Some phonological characteristics of Ejagham (Etung), an Ekoid Bantu language of Cameroon and Nigeria."

WATTERS, John, author. 2010. "Focus and the Ejagham verb system: from syntactic to semantic sub-categorization.."

Vernacular Publications

Ara na ngan etat: Ngan ejagham 2. 1985.

Éjághá ejeré 1. 1989.

Ejághá ejéré 2. 1992.

Éjághám ejǝ́ré 2. 1994.

Éjághám ejǝ́ré l. 1992.

English-Ejagham-French word book. 1970.

Epkin Abraham, Tata Nki and Awu, Nkui. 1970.

Etung: How to read it. 1966.

Ngan Ejagham I. 1981.

Osêŋ iyîm efanám 1. 2002.

Reading Ejagham. 1970.