A people and language of southeastern Nigeria, belonging to the Bantu language family spoken primarily in the Cross River region.
From the Efik people's self-designation, related to languages of the Niger Delta region. The term entered English through colonial contact with West African traders.
The Efik people were major participants in trans-Atlantic trade and created one of the first written African languages north of the equator, developing their own orthography centuries before many European languages standardized spelling.
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