The E- in Ejagham represents the class prefix for "language", analogous to the Bantu ki- in KiSwahili The Ekoi are one of several peoples who use Nsibidi ideographs, and may be the ones that created them.

Ekoi has the following noun classes, listed here with their Bantu equivalents.

Watters (1981) says there are fewer than in Bantu because of mergers (class 4 into 3, 7 into 6, etc.

), though Blench notes that there is no reason to think that the common ancestral language had as many noun classes as proto-Bantu.

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