Yace language
Spoken in
Niger - Congo
- Atlantic - Congo Volta - Niger Sm- Noi Idomoide languages
Agc
The language Yace (ISO 639-3 ekr, also ekpari, iyace, yache and yatye called ) is a idomoide language spoken by 50,000 people ( as of 2002) in the Nigerian state of Cross River in Yala LGA is spoken.
It belongs to the language group of the Benue - Congo languages .
From the vocabulary ago, the language is most closely related to the Akpa and forms with it the subgroup yatye - Akpa. The dialects are alifokpa and ijiegu. The ethnic group that speaks this language, called Ekpari and speaks more English as a native language. However, many Ekpari also Yala [ YBa ], Bekwarra [ bkv ], Tiv [ tiv ] and Igede [ owned ] as a second language.