Answer the following question: Information:  - Cross River is a state in South South Nigeria, bordering Cameroon to the east. Its capital is Calabar, and name derived from the Cross River (Oyono), which passes through the state. Boki, Ejagham and Efik are major languages of this state.  - Calabar (also referred to as "Canaan City") is a city in Cross River State, in south southern Nigeria. The original name for Calabar was Akwa Akpa, from the Efik language. The city is adjacent to the Calabar and Great Kwa rivers and creeks of the Cross River (from its inland delta).  - The Federal Republic of Nigeria , commonly referred to as Nigeria, is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north. Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean. It comprises 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, where the capital, Abuja is located. Its largest cities include: Lagos, Kano, Ibadan, Benin City and Port Harcourt. Nigeria is officially a democratic secular country.  - The Upper Cross River languages form a branch of the Cross River languages of Cross River State , Nigeria . The most populous languages are Loko and Membe , with 100,000 speakers .  - Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the Bight of Bonny, part of the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean.  - The Cross River or DeltaCross languages are a branch of the BenueCongo language family in south-easternmost Nigeria posited by Joseph Greenberg. It is one of the few of his branches of NigerCongo that has withstood the test of time.  - Joseph Harold Greenberg (May 28, 1915  May 7, 2001) was an American linguist, principally known for his work in two areas, linguistic typology and the genetic classification of languages.    Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'instance of' with the subject 'upper cross river languages'.  Choices: - branch  - city  - classification  - country  - cross  - family  - federal republic  - language family  - linguistic typology  - may  - name  - ocean  - part  - republic  - river  - state  - territory  - test  - time  - two
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language family