Ibani also known as Obani or Bonny or Ubani or Ijo or Okoloba or Okuloma is a language spoken in Bonny and Opobo areas of Rivers State, Nigeria by the Ibani people.
Ibani language has approximately 150,000 native speakers.
The language has 1 dialects; Bonny.
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