Eleme language

Eleme is a Nigerian language spoken by the Eleme people.

Eleme
Native toNigeria
RegionEleme, Rivers State
Native speakers
190,884. (2006)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3elm
Glottologelem1253[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.
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