Bokyi language

{{Short description|Bendi language spoken in Nigeria and Cameroon}} {{Infobox language |name=Bokyi |nativename=Boki |states=Southeastern Nigeria, southwestern Cameroon | ethnicity = Bokyi people |speakers={{sigfig|282,900|2}} |date=2005–2020 |ref = e25 |familycolor=Niger-Congo |fam2=Atlantic–Congo |fam3=Benue–Congo |fam4=Southern Bantoid? |fam5=Bendi |iso3=bky |glotto=boky1238 |glottorefname=Bokyi }}

'''Bokyi''' (Boki, Nfua, Nki, Okii, Osikom, Osukam, Uki, Vaaneroki) is a regionally important Bendi language spoken by the Bokyi people of northern Cross River State, Nigeria. It is ranked amongst the first fifteen languages of the about 520 living languages in Nigeria, with a few thousand speakers in Cameroon.

Major dialects include Abu (Abo, Baswo), Irruan, Osokom (Okundi) and Wula.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Niger-Congo/Bantoid/Bendi/Comparative%20Bendi.pdf|title=The Bendi languages: more lost Bantu languages?|last=Blench|first=Roger|date=2010|page=2}}</ref>

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