Ogoni languages
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The Ogoni languages, or Kegboid languages, are the five languages of the Ogoni people of Rivers State, Nigeria.
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Ogoni | |
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Kegboid | |
Ethnicity | Ogoni people |
Geographic distribution | SE Nigeria |
Linguistic classification | Niger–Congo? |
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Glottolog | ogon1240 |
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They fall into two clusters, East and West, with a limited degree of mutual intelligibility between members of each cluster. The Ogoni think of the cluster members as separate languages, however.
The classification of the Ogoni languages is as follows: