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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Africa > Nigeria > Iko

Iko

A language of Nigeria

ISO 639-3iki

Population  5,000 (1988).
Region  Akwa Ibom state, Ikot Abasi LGA. 3 villages.
Language map  Nigeria, Map 10, reference number 481
Dialects  Culturally they consider themselves Obolo [ann], but cannot use Obolo literature. Iko is more similar to other Lower Cross languages than to Obolo. Listed separately by Crozier and Blench 1992.
Classification  Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Cross River, Delta Cross, Lower Cross, Obolo, Iko