Kulango language

Kulango
Nkuraeng
Region Ivory Coast, Ghana
Ethnicity Kulango people
Native speakers
 130,000  (1991–2003)[1]
Niger–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
nku – Bouna
kzc – Bondoukou
Glottolog kula1277[2]

Kulango is a Niger–Congo language of Ivory Coast and across the border in Ghana. There are two principal varieties, distinct enough to be considered separate languages: the Kulango of Bondoukou (Bonduku), and that of Bouna (Buna). Ethnologue report Bouna-dialect speakers understand Bondoukou, but not the reverse. Bouna in addition has (sub)dialects Sekwa and Nabanj.

Variations of the name 'Kulango' include Koulango, Kolango, Kulange, Nkurange, Nkoramfo, Nkuraeng, and Kulamo; alternate names are Lorhon, Ngwela, and Babé.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Bouna at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Bondoukou at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kulango". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ James Stuart Olsen, The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996; ISBN 0313279187), p. 311.