Ijoid · ISO 639-3 ijc
Izon Language Ịzọn
Izon is an Ijoid language spoken by about 1.0 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Izon is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Izon
Language family
- Ijoid
- Ijo
- Western Ijo
- Izon
Writing system
Latin script
About the Izon language
Izon (Ịzọn) is spoken by about 1.0 million people, which makes it the 468th most spoken language in the world — just behind Ebira (1.0 million) and ahead of Jambi Malay (1.0 million). It belongs to the Ijoid language family and, more precisely, to the Western Ijo group within the Western Ijo branch.
Where is Izon spoken?
Izon is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Nigeria (1.0 million).
Izon is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Izon is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 ijc.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.