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The Eket or Ekid are the people who live in this Local Government Area. They are a sub-group of the Ibibio people. Eket is also the name of the main sub-language that they speak, a Benue–Congo language. Both languages are similar, but sufficiently distinct to give away the precise district the speaker originates from.
Ibibio, Annang, Akamkpa, Eket, Ejagham (or Ekoi), Bahumono, Oron, Biase, Uruan, Igbo, Bamileke. The Efik are an ethnic group located primarily in southern Nigeria , and western Cameroon . Within Nigeria, the Efik can be found in the present-day Cross River State and Akwa Ibom state .
The Annang, Ekid, Oron and Ibeno share personal names, culture, and traditions with the Ibibio, and speak closely related varieties (dialects) of Ibibio which are more or less mutually intelligible. [8] The Ekpo and societies are a significant part of the Ibibio political system. [9] They use a variety of masks to execute social control.
Efik-Ibibio is a dialect cluster spoken by about 15 million people of Akwa Ibom State and about 5 million people of Cross River States of Nigeria, making it the fifth largest language cluster in Nigeria after Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo and Fulani.
The Oron people recognises the Efik people, Obolo people, Ibeno and Ekid people as part of their ancestral family but many controversy states that the relationship of Oron with Ekid is said to have gone sour when the Eket under the regime of Brigadier General U.J. Esuene declared and agreed to be called a subgroup of the Ibibio nation to gain ...
Ekit (Eket) is an Ibibio-Efik language of Nigeria. References This page was last edited on 1 February 2023, at 16:14 (UTC). Text is ...
The Annang language is also mutually intelligible to speakers of Ibibio, Efik, Oron, Eket (also known as Ekid) of the Akwa Akpa (Old Calabar Kingdom). Though the Anaang speech pattern was not written down, linguists have now produced an orthography of the language which makes it possible to produce written materials in the language (Idem ...
The Efik language is mutually intelligible with other lower Cross River languages such as Ibibio, Anaang, Oro and Ekid but the degree of intelligibility in the case of Oro and Ekid is unidirectional; in other words, speakers of these languages speak and understand Efik (and Ibibio) but not vice versa. [3]