Family: Niger-Congo
Subfamily: Benue-Congo
Genus: Cross River

Efik

WALS coordinates: 4° 55′ N, 8° 30′ E

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:	Efik
Ruhlen:	Efik
Routledge:
Other:	Calabar
ISO 639-3:	efi

Features

ID	Feature	Value	Area
1A	Consonant Inventories	Small	Phonology	comment
2A	Vowel Quality Inventories	Large (7-14)	Phonology	comment
3A	Consonant-Vowel Ratio	Low	Phonology	comment
4A	Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives	In plosives alone	Phonology	comment
5A	Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems	Both missing	Phonology	comment
6A	Uvular Consonants	None	Phonology	comment
7A	Glottalized Consonants	No glottalized consonants	Phonology	comment
8A	Lateral Consonants	No laterals	Phonology	comment
11A	Front Rounded Vowels	None	Phonology	comment
12A	Syllable Structure	Moderately complex	Phonology	comment
13A	Tone	Simple tone system	Phonology	comment
18A	Absence of Common Consonants	All present	Phonology	comment
19A	Presence of Uncommon Consonants	Labial-velars	Phonology	comment
52A	Comitatives and Instrumentals	Differentiation	Nominal Categories	comment examples
88A	Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Noun-Demonstrative	Word Order	comment
89A	Order of Numeral and Noun	Noun-Numeral	Word Order	comment
90A	Order of Relative Clause and Noun	Noun-Relative clause	Word Order	comment
90C	Postnominal relative clauses	Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant	Word Order	comment
92A	Position of Polar Question Particles	Initial	Word Order	comment
93A	Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Not initial interrogative phrase	Word Order	comment
94A	Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause	Initial subordinator word	Word Order	comment
96A	Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun	Other	Word Order	comment
101A	Expression of Pronominal Subjects	Subject affixes on verb	Simple Clauses	comment
105A	Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'	Double-object construction	Simple Clauses	comment
112A	Negative Morphemes	Negative affix	Simple Clauses	comment
116A	Polar Questions	Question particle	Simple Clauses	comment
129A	Hand and Arm	Identical	Lexicon	comment examples
130A	Finger and Hand	Different	Lexicon	comment examples
143A	Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb	[V-Neg]	Word Order	comment
143E	Preverbal Negative Morphemes	None	Word Order	comment
143F	Postverbal Negative Morphemes	[V-Neg]	Word Order	comment
143G	Minor morphological means of signaling negation	None	Word Order	comment