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Missionaries and the Bible: How Efik Became the First Nigerian Language to Have a Written Orthography and a Full Bible Translation (1868)

The Efik language occupies a distinguished place in Nigerian linguistic and religious history. It is widely recognized as the first Nigerian language to develop a standardized written orthography and the first to have a complete Bible translation, published in 1868. This achievement was the result of a unique collaboration between European missionaries especially from…