Jagham language


The Jagham language, Ejagham, also known as Ekoi, is an Ekoid language of Nigeria and Cameroon spoken by the Ekoi people.
The Ekoi are one of several peoples who use Nsibidi ideographs, and may be the ones that created them.

Dialects

Ekoi is dialectally diverse. The dialects of Ejagham are divided into Western and Eastern groups:
Blench also lists Ekin as an Ejagham dialect.

Morphology

Ekoi has the following noun classes, listed here with their Bantu equivalents. Watters says there are fewer than in Bantu because of mergers, though Blench notes that there is no reason to think that the common ancestral language had as many noun classes as proto-Bantu.