Kpee language

Kpee
Numu
Kpeego
Native to scattered throughout southwest Ivory Coast
Ethnicity Kpeera (Numu)
Native speakers
 ≈ 2,000  (2012)[1]
Niger–Congo

  • Mande

    • Western Mande
      • Central
        • Manding–Jogo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 cpo
Glottolog kpee1234[2]
Person Kpee
People Kpeera
Language Kpeego

The Kpee language, Kpeego, commonly called Numu (Noumoukan), is a Mande language spoken by blacksmiths (numu) in Burkina Faso. It is thought to be similar to Ligbi in Ghana, but no comparison has been done.

References

  1. ↑ Kpee at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kpeego". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.