Ogbia language

Ogbia
Ogbinya
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Bayelsa State, Rivers State
Native speakers	390,000 (2020)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Cross River Central Delta Ogbia
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ogb
Glottolog	ogbi1239

Ogbia (AgBeya or Abaya) is the most spoken Central Delta language of Nigeria. It is spoken by over 200,000 people.

Blench (2019) lists varieties as Kolo (Agholo), Oloiḅiri, and Anyama. The Anyama variety remains unattested and has no data.^[2]

Phonology

Consonants

		Bilabial	Labio- dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Labio- velar
Nasal		m		n	ɲ	ŋ	ŋʷ
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	p		t		k	k͡p
	voiced	b		d	d͡ʒ	ɡ	ɡ͡b
	implosive	ɓ		ɗ
Fricative	voiceless		f	s
	voiced	β	v	z		ɣ
Trill				r
Approximant				l	j		w

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i iː		u uː
Near-high	ɪ ɪː		ʊ ʊː
High-mid	e eː	ə əː	o oː
Low-mid	ɛ ɛː		ɔ ɔː
Low		a aː

^[3][4]

References

1. Ogbia at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
3. Isukul, Caroline (n.d.). A grammar of Agholo [Ogbia].
4. Kari, Ethelbert Emmanuel (2017). Central Delta languages: An overview. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 47: University of Botswana, Botswana. pp. 1–26.