The Upper Cross River languages form a branch of the Cross River languages of Cross River State, Nigeria. The most populous languages are Lokö and Mbembe, with 100,000 speakers.

Languages

The internal structure per Cornell (1994), reproduced in Williamson and Blench (2000), is as follows:

Names and locations

Below is a list of language names, populations, and locations from Blench (2019).

Reconstruction

A reconstruction of Proto-Upper Cross River has been proposed by Gerrit Dimmendaal (1978).

See also

• List of Proto-Upper Cross River reconstructions (Wiktionary)

References

External links

• ComparaLex, database with Upper Cross River word lists