Enyong division of the British colonial empire

Enyong

People

Alternative title: Northern Ibibio (Annang people)

Written by The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica

• ethnological affinity with Ibibio

  Ibibio
  ...state. They speak dialects of Efik-Ibibio, a language now grouped within the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family. The Ibibio comprise the following major divisions: Efik, Northern (Enyong), Southern (Eket), Delta (Andoni-Ibeno), Western (Anang), and Eastern (the Ibibio proper).