Gbo language

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Gbo
Legbo
Legbo
Native to Nigeria
Region Cross River State, Ebonyi State
EthnicityAgbo
Native speakers
(60,000 cited 1989) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 agb
Glottolog legb1242 [2]
Gbo
PeopleAgbo
LanguageLegbo

The Gbo language, known as Legbo or after the people as Agbo, is an Upper Cross River language of Nigeria.

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References

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