Oruma language

Oruma
Native to Nigeria
Region Rivers State
Native speakers
5,000 (1995)[1]
Niger–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 orr
Glottolog orum1241[2]

Oruma is one of three small Inland Ijaw languages of Nigeria. According to Ethnologue, it is not fully intelligible with other varieties of Inland Ijaw.

References

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


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