Mbembe language

{{Short description|Cross River language spoken in Nigeria}}

{{Distinguish|text=Tigon language, Mfumte language}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Mbembe

|states=Nigeria

|speakers=100,000

|date=1982

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Niger-Congo

|fam2=Atlantic–Congo languages

|fam3=Benue–Congo languages

|fam4=Cross River

|fam5=Upper Cross

|fam6=Central

|fam7=East–West

|iso3=mfn

|lc1=oda|ld1=Odut village

|glotto=cros1244

|glottorefname=Cross River Mbembe

|ELP=4914

|ELPname=Odut

}}

Mbembe is a Cross River language of Nigeria. Odut,Blench (2013) An Atlas of Nigerian Languages a divergent variety spoken in a village far South of the rest of Mbembe, had 20 speakers in 1980 and may be extinct.{{Cite news|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/18/language/oda/|title=Odut|work=Ethnologue|access-date=2017-07-26}}

References

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{{Languages of Nigeria}}

{{Cross River languages}}

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Category:Languages of Nigeria

Category:Upper Cross River languages

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