Anaang language

Cross River language spoken in Nigeria
Anaang
Native toSouthern Nigeria
RegionAkwa Ibom State
EthnicityAnaang
Native speakers
2.9 million (2020)[1]
Language family
Niger–Congo?
Language codes
ISO 639-3anw
Glottologanaa1238
ELPAnaang

Anaang (Annang) is the native language of the Anaang people of Nigeria.

The Annang speaker of English tends to apply the grammatical rules of Annang in his use of English, often violating the intuition of native speakers of English.[2]

See also

  • Anaang word list (Wiktionary)

References

  1. ^ Anaang at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Udondata, Joseph. "A Contrastive Study of English and Annang Structural Patterns".
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