Obolo language

Obolo, or Andoni, is a major Lower Cross River language of Nigeria.

Obolo
Andoni
Native toNigeria
RegionRivers State, Akwa Ibom State
EthnicityObolo people
Native speakers
250,000 (2012)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3ann
Glottologobol1243[2]

Obolo literature
  • The Bible in Obolo was published by the Obolo Language and Bible Translation Organization in 2014.[3]
  • An Obolo-language website was launched in 2016.[4]
  • 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.[5]

References
  1. Obolo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Obolo". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. http://www.obololanguage.org/en/welcome-obolo-nation
  4. http://www.obololanguage.org
  5. https://obololanguage.org/ann/%C3%B2folek-olbto/mfufuk-ofolek-ikwaan%CC%84-usem-obolo-olbto-1984-2014
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