Ogoni languages
# Ogoni languages

The Ogoni languages, or Kegboid languages, are the five languages of the Ogoni people of Rivers State, Nigeria.

They fall into two clusters, East and West, with a limited degree of mutual intelligibility between members of each cluster. The Ogoni think of the cluster members as separate languages, however.

The classification of the Ogoni languages is as follows:

* East: Khana and Tẹẹ, with around 1,800,000 speakers between them, and Gokana, with about 250,000.
* West: Eleme, with about 90,000 speakers, and Baan, with around 50,500.

## Names and locations

Below is a list of language names, populations, and locations from Blench (2019).

| Language | Branch | Dialects | Alternate spellings | Own name for language | Endonym(s) | Other names (location-based) | Other names for language | Speakers | Location(s) |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Gokana | Kegboid | | | | | | | 54,000 (1973 SIL) | Rivers State, Gokana–Tai–Eleme LGA |
| Khana | Kegboid | Yeghe, Nyokhana, Ken–Khana, Boúe, Kaa | Khana | | | Ogoni (ethnic and political term includes Gokana) | | 76,713 (1926 Talbot); 90,000 (SIL) | Rivers State, Khana/Oyigbo and Gokana–Tai–Eleme LGAs |
| Eleme | West | | | | | | | 55,000 (1987 UBS) | Rivers State, Gokana–Tai–Eleme LGA |
| Tẹẹ | West | | Tai | Tèẹ̀ ̣ | Tèẹ̀ ̣ | | | 313,000 (2006) | Rivers State, Tèẹ̀ ̣Local Government Area (TALGA) |
| Baan | | Ka-Ban, Kesari | | | | Ban–Ogoi | Goi, Ogoi | Fewer than 5,000 (1990) | Rivers State, Gokana–Tai–Eleme LGA, Ban–Ogoi plus villages |
