{{Short description|Bendi language spoken in Nigeria}} {{Infobox language |name=Putukwam |nativename= |states=Nigeria |region=Obudu LGA, Cross River State |speakers=70,000 |date=2012 |ref=e18 |familycolor=Niger-Congo |fam2=Atlantic–Congo |fam3=Benue–Congo |fam4=Southern Bantoid? |fam5=Bendi |dia1=Afrike |dia2=Obe |iso3=afe |glotto=putu1241 |glottorefname=Putukwam }}
'''Putukwam''' (Utugwang-Irungene-Afrike) is a Bendi language of Obudu LGA, Cross River State, Nigeria.
== Dialects == ''Ethnologue''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/afe|title= Utugwang-Irungene-Afrike|website=ethnologue.com}}</ref> and Glottolog<ref>{{cite web|url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/putu1241|title= Utugwang-Irungene-Afrike|website=glottolog.org}}</ref> list dialects as: * Afrike (Aferike, Utumane) * Irungene (Mbe Afal, Mbe East, Mbube Eastern, Obe, Upper Mbe) * Mgbenege (Ngbenege) * Okworogung (Ukworogung) * Ukwortung (Okorotung) * Utugwang (Otukwang, Utukwang)
Roger Blench (2019) lists dialects as:<ref name="BlenchAtlas4">{{Cite book|title=An Atlas of Nigerian Languages|last=Blench|first=Roger|publisher=Kay Williamson Educational Foundation|year=2019|edition=4th|location=Cambridge|url=https://rogerblench.info/Language/Africa/Nigeria/Atlas%20of%20Nigerian%20Languages%202020.pdf|page=113}}</ref> * Obe * Mgbenege * Utugwang * Okwọrọgung * Okwọrọtung
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Bendi languages}} Category:Bendi languages Category:Languages of Nigeria
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