Akpet language

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Akpet
Ukpet-Ehom
Native to Nigeria
Region Cross River State
Native speakers
11,000 (2000) [1]
Dialects
  • Ukpet
  • Ehom
Language codes
ISO 639-3 akd
Glottolog ukpe1249 [2]

Akpet, also known as Ukpet-Ehom or Akpet-Ehom, is a dialect cluster of the Upper Cross River languages of Nigeria. The varieties are Ukpet (Akpet) and Ehom (Ubeteng, Ebeteng).

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References

  1. Akpet at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ukpet-Ehom". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.