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. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kpeego". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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