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Obolo (or Andoni) is a major Cross River language of Nigeria. Obolo is the indigenous name of a community in the eastern Delta of the River Niger, better known as Andoni (the origin of this latter name being uncertain).[2] Obolo refers to the people, the language as well as the land.

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Obolo
Andoni
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Rivers State, Akwa Ibom State
Ethnicity	Obolo people
Native speakers	318,000 (2011)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Cross River Lower Cross Obolo
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ann
Glottolog	obol1243

Dialects

There are six major dialect groups in the language, namely: (from west to east): Ataba, Unyeada, Ngo, Okoroete, Iko and Ibot Obolo.[3] Ngo is the prestige dialect, hence the standard literary form of Obolo draws heavily from it.

Obolo literature

• The Bible in Obolo was published by the Obolo Language and Bible Translation Organization in 2012. Obolo is the 23rd Nigerian language to have the complete Bible.[4]
• An Obolo-language website was launched in 2016.[5]
• The first literary material on Literature in the Mother-Tongue; a novel for Junior Secondary Schools and public readership, "Mbuban Îchaka" by Isidore Ene-Awaji © Obolo Language & Bible Translation Project, was published in 2010.[6]

Writing System

Obolo language is written in the Latin script. The alphabet is as follows:

Obolo alphabet [7][8][9]

a	b	ch	d	e	f	g	gb
gw	i	j	k	kp	kw	l	m
n	n̄	nw	ny	o	ọ	p	r
s	(sh)	t	u	(v)	w	y	(z)

• The characters in bracket are dialect-specific.
• Tone marks can be added to some letters. The tone bearers are the vowels a, e, i, o, ọ, u as well as m and n.

Obolo is a tone language. There are five tones in the language: low, high, mid, falling and rising tone.[10] In writing, only the low tone and falling tone are indicated.[11] Tones are marked compulsorily on the first syllables of verbs and verbal groups. For other classes of words, a standard literature will show the way to go.

References

На других языках

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[de] Obolo

Die Sprache Obolo (auch andone, andoni und andonni; ISO 639-3 ist ann[1]) ist eine Sprache, die von etwa 200.000 Einwohnern der nigerianischen Bundesstaaten Rivers und Akwa Ibom gesprochen wird.[2]

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- [en] Obolo language

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[fr] Obolo

L’obolo est une langue bénoué-congolaise parlée au Nigeria.

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