Obolo

Language

Languagenatural language modern languageQ36614

Also known as Andoni

Speakers: 318,000
Subclass of: Lower Cross River
Script: Latin script
Indigenous to: Akwa Ibom State
, Federal Capital Territory
, Rivers State

Overview

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Obolo is a major Cross River language of Nigeria. It is the most divergent language in the Lower Cross (LC) subgroup of Cross River, which is a branch of Benue-Congo. Obolo is the indigenous name of a community in the eastern Delta of the River Niger, better known as Andoni. Obolo refers to the people, the language as well as the land. It is an agglutinative, an SVO and a tonal language.

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Works in this language

3 linked to Obolo in Wikidata

All data

23 statements · 43% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Linguistic typology: subject–verb–object
Ethnologue language status: 5 Developing
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Sources
1.Stated in Ethnologueethnologue.com/language/annRetrieved 2019-05-10
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Country: Nigeria
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1.“ScriptSource - Nigeria”scriptsource.org/country/NGRetrieved 2023-08-21
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Wikimedia language code: ann

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9 identifiers linking Obolo across the web's reference databases

4.7000, 6.8000OpenStreetMap ↗

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AIDB. (2026). Obolo (Q36614). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/obolo-Q36614