Kakabe language

Kakabe
Native to Guinea
Ethnicity 50,000 (2012)[1]
Native speakers
 10,000 (2012)[1]
Niger–Congo

  • Mande

    • Western Mande
      • Central–Western
        • Central Mande
          • Manding–Jogo
            • Manding–Vai
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kke
Glottolog kaka1265[2]

Kakabe is a minor Mande language of Guinea. The Speakers of the Kakabe language reside in the Futa-Jallon plateau which is located in Guinea.[3] Kakabe belongs to the Mokole group, which is the closest group to the Manding people in terms of culture and language. The language is spoken in a number of villages that are situated on the Futa-Jallon plateau in Guinea.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Kakabe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kakabe". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. 1 2 Vydrina, Alexandra. "Collection Kakabe".

ELAR archive of Description and Documentation of the Kakabe language


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.