Adele language
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Adele | ||
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Spoken in: | Ghana and Togo | |
Total speakers: | — | |
Language family: | Niger-Congo Atlantic-Congo Volta-Congo Kwa Adele |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | ||
ISO 639-3: | ade | |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. |
The Adele language is spoken in central eastern Ghana and central western Togo by about 21000 people. It belongs to the Ghana Togo Mountain languages (traditionally called the Togorestsprachen or Togo Remnant languages) of the Kwa branch of Volta-Congo, Niger-Congo. The speakers themselves call the language Gidire.
[edit] Reference
- Bernd Heine, Die Verbreitung und Gliederung der Togorestsprachen. Berlin, Dietrich Reimer, 1968.