Eleme language

Eleme is a Nigerian language spoken by the Eleme people.

Eleme
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Eleme, Rivers State
Native speakers	190,884. (2006)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Cross River Ogoni West Ogoni Eleme
Language codes
ISO 639-3	elm
Glottolog	elem1253[2]

A unique feature of Eleme is that it uses reduplication to negate verbs.[3]

References

1. Eleme at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Eleme". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. Harrison, K. David. (2007). When languages die : the extinction of the world's languages and the erosion of human knowledge. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 216. ISBN 978-0-19-518192-0. OCLC 65425996.