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:
- Tepo: Tepo, Bapo, Wlopo / Ropo, Dapo, Honpo, Yrepo / Kapo, Glawlo dialects
- Pye: Trepo, Wluwe-Hawlo, Gbowe-Hran, Wlepo, Dugbo, Yrewe / Giriwe, Yapo, Pie dialects
- Plapo
Plapo has only a hundred speakers and no dialectical variation.
References
- ↑ Tepo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Pye at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Plapo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ivorian [Grebo]". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Ethnologue report on Krumen at SIL