Otank language

Otank
Otank
Utanga, Utange
Native to	Nigeria, Cameroon
Native speakers	15,000 (2006)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Tivoid Central (A) Otank; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	uta
Glottolog	otan1238

Otank (Utanga) is a Tivoid language spoken by the Utanga group of tiv people in both Nigeria and Cameroon. It is used as a second language by Obanliku speakers.

Features

It has no writing system and no dialect, and has a lexical similarity of 70% with Tiv proper, 60% with Iceve, 50% with Evant, and 40% with Eman and Mesaka

Etymology

Utanga or Utange are tiv people, who live in Ushongo local government of Benue state Nigeria, Obanliku Local Government of Cross River State Nigeria and Akwaya sub-division of Manyu division of the western Cameroon.²

References

Otank at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
"Utanga: The forgotten Tiv community of Cross River". Daily Trust.

[e18-1] Otank at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] "Utanga: The forgotten Tiv community of Cross River". Daily Trust.

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