Ibibio language
Spoken in
- Niger - Congo languages Volta - Congo languages Benue - Congo languages Cross River languages Delta Cross Ibibio
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Ibibio is the language of the Ibibio people in southeastern Nigeria. It is one of those languages of Nigeria, funded since the 70s as minority languages of the government-owned radio and television stations.
It has about five million speakers, who live mainly in the western center of Nigeria. It is a Cross River language within the Benue - Congo languages , a branch of the Niger - Congo languages . The language has about a dozen dialects: Ibiono, Uruan, Uyo, Iman, Ikot Abasi / Mkpat enyne and Ikono (after Urua 2004) and Enyong, Central Ibibio, Itak and Nsit (after Gordon 2005).
Language Technology
So far there are only few reports on the speech synthesis of African tone languages . Preoccupied with the Ibibio synthesis have been Gibbon et al. (2006) and Bachmann (2006, 2007).