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0. Location and Demographics The Ogonoid (Ogoni/Kegboid) language family of southeastern Nigeria (BenueCongo, Niger-Congo) comprises five languages spoken in a contiguous area across the Niger Delta. Despite shared ethnographic practices, frequent intermarriage and the immediate physical adjacency of these linguistic communities, Ogonoid languages (1) present with strikingly divergent morpho-syntactic structure. All the Ogonoid languages (except Baan) are spoken in an eponymous Local Government Area (LGA) of Rivers State; the political boundaries of each largely reflect the linguistic boundaries. Baan (previously known as Ogoi) is spoken in eastern parts of Eleme LGA and western parts of Tai LGA (2).

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