Obolo language
| Obolo | |
|---|---|
| Andoni | |
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Rivers State, Akwa Ibom State |
| Ethnicity | Obolo people, Ijaw |
Native speakers | 318,000 (2011) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ann |
| Glottolog | obol1243 |
Obolo (or Andoni) is a major Cross River language of Nigeria. It is the most divergent language in the Lower Cross (LC) subgroup of Cross River, which is a branch of Benue-Congo. Obolo is the indigenous name of a community in the eastern Delta of the River Niger, better known as Andoni (the origin of this latter name being uncertain). Obolo refers to the people, the language as well as the land. It is an agglutinative, an SVO and a tonal language.