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The Jagham language, Ejagham, also known as Ekoi, is an Ekoid language of Nigeria and Cameroon spoken by the Ekoi people. The E- in Ejagham represents the class prefix for "language", analogous to the Bantu ki- in KiSwahili

Ekoi
Ejagham
Native to	Nigeria, Cameroon
Ethnicity	Ekoi people
Native speakers	120,000 (2000)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Ekoid–Mbe Ekoid Ekoi
Dialects	Bendeghe Northern Etung Southern Etung Ekwe Akamkpa-Ejagham Keaka Obang Nkim Nkum Ekajuk
Writing system	Nsibidi Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	etu
Glottolog	ejag1239

The Ekoi are one of several peoples who use Nsibidi ideographs, and may be the ones that created them.

Writing System

A Jagham alphabet was developed by John R. Watters and Kathie Watters in 1981.

Western Jagham alphabet[2]^{[incomplete short citation]}

a

b

bh

ch

d

e

ə

f

g

gb

gh

i

j

k

kp

m

n

ny

ŋ

o

p

r

s

t

u

ʉ

w

y

Dialects

Ekoi is dialectally diverse. The dialects of Ejagham are divided into Western and Eastern groups:

• Western varieties include Bendeghe, Northern and Southern Etung, Ekwe and Akamkpa-Ejagham;
• Eastern varieties include Keaka and Obang.[3]

Blench (2019) also lists Ekin as an Ejagham dialect.[4]

Morphology

Ekoi has the following noun classes, listed here with their Bantu equivalents. Watters (1981) says there are fewer than in Bantu because of mergers (class 4 into 3, 7 into 6, etc.), though Blench notes that there is no reason to think that the common ancestral language had as many noun classes as proto-Bantu.

Noun class	Prefix	Concord
1	N-	w, ɲ
2	a-	b
3	N-	m
5	ɛ-	j
6	a-	m
8	bi-	b
9	N-	j, ɲ
14	ɔ-	b
19	i-	f

('N' stands for a homorganic nasal. 'j' is "y".)

References

External links

• Ejagham basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database

На других языках

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[de] Ejagham

Ekoi (auch Ejagham; ISO 639-3: etu[1]) ist eine bantoide Sprache, welche insgesamt von 116.000 Menschen gesprochen wird, davon 67.300 in Nigeria (hier im Bundesstaat Cross River) und 49.400 in Kamerun (in der Region Südwest).

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- [en] Jagham language

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[fr] Ejagham (langue)

L'ejagham (ou edjagam, ejagam, ejaham, ejwe, ekoi, etung, keaka, kwa, obang) est une langue bantoïde méridionale du groupe ekoïde parlée au Nigeria dans l'État de Cross River et au Cameroun, dans la Région du Sud-Ouest, le département du Manyu, l'arrondissement d'Eyumodjock, au sud de l'arrondissement de Mamfé, à l'ouest de la ville de Mamfé, par les populations Ejagham ou Ekoï[2].

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