Etkywan language

Etkywan
Etkywan
Icen
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Taraba
Native speakers	(50,000 cited 2000)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Jukunoid Central Kpan–Icen Etkywan; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ich
Glottolog	etky1238

Last updated December 17, 2025

Etkywan (Etekwe), or Icen (Itchen), also known as Kentu or Nyidu, is a Jukunoid language of Nigeria.^[2]

References

↑ Etkywan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Etkywan". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[e18-1] Etkywan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Etkywan". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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