Ogoni languages

Ogoni languages
Ogoni
Kegboid
Ethnicity: Ogoni people
Geographic
distribution:		 SE Nigeria
Linguistic classification: Niger–Congo
Subdivisions:
East
West

The Ogoni languages, or Kegboid languages, are the five languages of the Ogoni people of Rivers State, Nigeria.

They fall into two clusters, with a limited degree of mutual intelligibility between members of each cluster. However, the Ogoni think of them as separate languages.

The Eastern languages are Khana and Tẹẹ, with a quarter million or so speakers, and Gokana, with about half that number. The Western languages are Eleme, with about 70,000 speakers, and Baan, with about a tenth that number.



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