Krumen language

Krumen
Native to Ivory Coast, Liberia
Native speakers
50,000 (1993)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
ted  Tepo
pye  Pye
ktj  Plapo
Glottolog ivor1240[2]

Krumen is a dialect continuum spoken by the Krumen people of Liberia and Ivory Coast (Tabou and Grabo subprefectures). It is a branch of the Grebo languages, a subfamily of the Kru languages and ultimately of the Niger–Congo languages. It had 48,300 speakers in 1993.[3] The main varieties are:

Plapo has only a hundred speakers and no dialectical variation.

References

  1. Tepo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Pye at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Plapo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ivorian [Grebo]". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Ethnologue report on Krumen at SIL


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