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Ntezi (Eteji) People

Ntezi is located in the Eastern outskirt of Ishielu LGA of Ebonyi State in Nigeria. Ntezi is pronounced Eteji my the natives, and belongs to the ^Orring or Orri People. The dialect of Ntezi is K'eteji (Keteji), a sub-language of k'Orring.

Ntezi is a sub-ethnic group of the Orring people. The Orring people occupies a scattered territories existing in three states in Nigeria which are Benue, Cross River and Ebonyi States. The language of Orring people is K'orring which is further group dialectically according individual communities and clans of the Orring people.

According A.E. Afigbo and A.I. Alagoa in Abario Ikeme's "Groundwork of Nigerian History", K'orring is classified understand the Benue Congo language family. While Greenberg classified K'orring language family as part of the Bantiod languages of the Cross River and Benue Congo. This claim was further backup by H.N Ajifo a historian from the department of History and International Relations in Ebonyi State University, and from the department of Linguistics in University of Nigerian Nsukka that came up with a concise agreement stating some fact and semantic relationship of Korring language and Bantu. One of these discovery was the meaning of Bantu which means 'people'. In Korring people are called 'banuo (gbanuo)'. This common similarities among other factual similarities have continued to support the works of Greenberg in classification of Niger-Cross languages.

The Kins of Ntezi in Ebonyi are Okpoto (Lame) in Ishielu LGA, Amuda (Idzem) and Okpomoro (Okpolo) in Ezza North LGA, and Effium (Uffium) in Ohaukwu LGA. Ntezi also have kins in Benue State, which are the Ogba, Ufia and Utonkon; and in Cross River they are the Ukele, Wanikom, Izekwe, Wanikade, among others. The Ukele speak an K'orring dialect called K'ukele, while Ufia of Benue speaks K'ufia, K'idzem for Amuda natively called 'Idzem', and Kuffium for the Effium natively called "Uffium".