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Ebira language
Ebira
is a
Niger-Congo language
. It is
spoken
by around a million
people
in
Kogi State
,
North
central
Nigeria
. It is the most
divergent
Nupoid language
.
Dialects
Varieties
of Ebira are:
Okene
dialect
, the main
prestige dialect
used in
media
and
publishing
. It is spoken to
the west
of the Niger-Benue
confluence
Koto
dialect
, spoken to the
northeast
of the Niger-Benue confluence. It is known only from a wordlist in
Sterk
.
Blench
lists
Okene, Etuno, and Koto.