Franca Umasoye Igwe & Julen Villarreal Moreno

Ekpeye multimedia book project (Nigeria)

Language: Ekpeye
Glottocode: ekpe1253

This project focuses on endangered genres of Ekpeye (glottocode: ekpe1253), an Igboid language of Nigeria. Franca Umasoye Igwe and Julen Villarreal Moreno devised this project to document various aspects of Ekpeye oral literature – including folklore, music and proverbs – in the form of a multimedia book project.