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Encyclopedia > Nkoroo language
Nkoroo
Spoken in: Nigeria 
Region: Rivers State, Opobo-Nkoro LGA
Total speakers: 4,550 (1989 UBS)
Language family: Niger-Congo
 Atlantic Congo
  Ijoid
   Ijo
    East Nkoroo
     Nkoroo
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: nkx

Nkoroo is a Niger Congo language spoken by about 4500 ethnic Nkoroo in Rivers State, Nigeria. Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families. ... Map showing the distribution of Niger-Congo languages The Niger-Congo languages constitute one of the worlds major language families, and Africas largest in terms of geographical area, number of speakers, and number of distinct languages. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... The Ijoid languages are spoken by the Ịjọ [Ijaw] and the Defaka (Afakani) of the Niger Delta in Nigeria, totalling about 10 million. ... Ijo is a group of languages spoken in southern Nigeria, by the Ijo people. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages. ... ISO 639-3 is in process of development as an international standard for language codes. ... For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words see here. ... Phonetics (from the Greek word φωνή, phone meaning sound, voice) is the study of sounds and the human voice. ... Unicode is an industry standard designed to allow text and symbols from all of the writing systems of the world to be consistently represented and manipulated by computers. ... This chart shows concisely the most common way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is applied to represent the English language. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Map showing the distribution of Niger-Congo languages The Niger-Congo languages constitute one of the worlds major language families, and Africas largest in terms of geographical area, number of speakers, and number of distinct languages. ... Nkoroo is a town in the Bonny territory of the Rivers State, Nigeria. ...


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