Adele language

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Adele
Spoken in: Ghana and Togo
Total speakers:
Language family: Niger-Congo
 Atlantic-Congo
  Volta-Congo
   Kwa
    Adele
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: ade

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.
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