Putukwam language

Putukwam
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Cross River State
Native speakers	70,000 (2012)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid? Bendi Putukwam
Dialects	Afrike Obe
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`afe`
Glottolog	`putu1241`^[2]

Putukwam is a Bendi (Benue–Congo) language of Nigeria.

Dialects are Afrike (Utumane), Irungene (Obe, Mbe Afal, Eastern Mbube), Mgbenege, Ukworogung, Ukwortung.

References

↑ Putukwam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Putukwam". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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