Greenberg's Cross River family originally included the Bendi languages.

However, the inclusion of Bendi in Cross River at all is doubtful, and it has been tentatively reassigned to the Southern Bantoid family, making the terms Cross River and Delta–Cross now synonymous.

There are four primary branches of Cross River: Below is a list of major Cross River branches and their primary locations (centres of diversity) in southeast Nigeria and southwest Cameroon based on Blench (2019).

[1] The Korring, Kukele, Mbembe language of Ebonyi State The Korop language of Southwest Cameroon Andoni LGA, Rivers State Lower Cross River State The Usaghade language of Southwest Cameroon Ogbia, Yenagoa LGAs, Bayelsa State Roger Blench (2008: 4)[2] classifies the Cross River languages as follows.

Although Blench (2004) tentatively included the Bendi languages as possibly being a Cross River outlier branch, the Bendi languages are generally classified as Southern Bantoid.