Harsunan Ekoi

**Harsunan Ekoi** rukuni ne na yaruka na Bantoid na Kudancin Bantoid da ake magana dasu musamman a kudu maso gabashin Najeriya da kuma yankuna kusa da Cameroon. Suna da alaƙa da harsunan Bantu, hasali ma ba kasafai ake iya bambance su ba. Crabb (1969)  ya kasance shi kadai ne rubutaccen abu akan harshen, duk da cewa abin baƙin ciki, shine Sashi na II, wanda zai ƙunshi nazarin nahawu, ba a taɓa buga shi ba. Hakanan Crabb yana nazarin wallafe-wallafen akan Ekoid har zuwa ranar da kuma aka buga shi.

Yaren Mbe na kusa shine dangi mafi kusanci da yaren Ekoid kuma su suka hada reshen Ekoid – Mbe na kudancin Bantoid. 

## Harsuna
*Nazarin rarrabuwar harsuna ya* lissafa ire-iren Ekoid tare da sauran yarukan masu zaman kansu. Branching daga Watters ne (1978) da Yoder et al. (2009).

* Ndoe
* (ainihin)
** Ejagham (Ekoi)
** Efutop – Ekajuk: Efutop, Nde-Nsele-Nta, Abanyom, Nkem-Nkum, Ekajuk - Nnam

## Sunaye da wurare (Najeriya)
Teburin da ke ƙasa akwai jerin sunayen harshe, yawan jama'a, da wurare (a cikin Najeriya kawai) daga Blench (2019). 

## Fasaha
An sake gina Proto-Ekoid tare da wasula da sautuna masu zuwa:  ; babban, ƙasa, tashi, faɗuwa, da gangara . Sautunan tashi da faɗowa, kodayake, na iya zama haɗuwa.

Ana tsammanin yana da baƙaƙe masu zuwa:

 yana faruwa yayin fara kalma da kuma,  a tsakiyar ƙarshe.

## Nazari
Bugun farko na kayan Ekoid yana cikin Clarke (1848)  inda aka lissafa 'yaruka' biyar kuma an ba da gajeren lafazin kowane. Sauran manyan littattafan farko sune Koelle (1854),  Thomas (1914)  da Johnston (1919-1922).  Kodayake Koelle ya ɗibar da samfurinsa a yanki ɗaya, da alama Cust (1883)  shi ne farkon wanda ya haɗa su wuri ɗaya kuma ya sanya su cikin rukuni tare da Bantu amma ba a ciki ba. Thomas (1927)  shine marubuci na farko da yayi daidai yadda aka tsara Ekoid Bantu, amma ba daidai ba daga Westermann & Bryan (1952)  sake maimaita tsufa, wanda bai dace ba. Wannan shima ya yada wata tsohuwar kuskuren kuma ta hada da yarukan Nyang tare da Ekoid. Harsunan Nyang suna da halaye daban daban kuma tabbas suna nesa da Bantu fiye da Ekoid.

Guthrie (1967-1971)  bai iya yarda cewa Ekoid ya zama wani ɓangare na Bantu ba. Bayaninsa na farko da ba zai yiwu ba shi ne cewa 'Bantuism' ya samo asali ne daga masu magana da yaren Bantu kasancewar wadanda ke magana da 'Yammacin Sudanic' suna 'shagaltar da su,' a takaice dai, kwatankwacin kamanceceniya, ya kasance mai yawan toshe kalmomin bashi. Daga baya aka canza wannan cikin 'Harsunan Ekoid na iya dan raba asali da wasu daga cikin yarukan yankin na A, amma da alama sun sha wahala sosai' (Guthrie 1971, II: 15). Williamson (1971)  a cikin rarrabuwa mai tasiri na Benuwe-Congo ya sanya Ekoid a cikin 'Wide Bantu' ko kuma abin da yanzu za'a kira shi Bantoid, yawancin harsunan da ba su da kyau a tsakanin Bantu da ragowar Benuwe-Congo .

Duk rabe-raben zamani na Ekoid sun dogara ne da Crabb (1969) kuma lokacin da Watters (1981)  ya zo don bincika ladabi-Enology na Ekoid, ya yi amfani da wannan tushe, maimakon kayan aikinsa na kansa daga yarukan Ejagham a Kamaru. Matsalar matsalar Crabb ita ce labarinsa na Ekoid wanda ba ya bayyana bambancin sauti da rubutun sauti. Sabon aiki akan Ejagham na Watters (1980,  1981) ya faɗaɗa iliminmu na yarukan Kamaru na Ekoid. Koyaya, wata muhimmiyar takaddar da Asinya (1987)  wanda ba a buga shi ba wanda aka kafa shi a cikin sabo a cikin Nijeriya ya yi muhimmin da'awa game da fasahar fasahar Ekoid, wato yawancin harsunan Ekoid suna da tsayi / gajere a wasula. Ekoid ya tayar da sha'awa musamman tsakanin Bantuists saboda yana da tsarin suna wanda yake kusa da Bantu kuma amma ba za'a iya cewa yayi daidai (Watters 1980) ba.

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