Anaang language

Anaang
Native to Southern Nigeria
Region Cross River State
Ethnicity Annang
Native speakers
(1.4 million cited 1991)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 anw
Glottolog anaa1238[2]

Anaang (Annang), also known as Western Ibibio,[3] is part of the Ibibio-Efik dialect cluster. It is the native language of the Anaang people of Nigeria.

References

  1. Anaang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Anaang". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Okon E. Essien, 1986, Ibibio names: their structure and their meanings


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