Abé language
| Abé | |
|---|---|
| Region | Ivory Coast |
| Ethnicity | Abbé |
Native speakers | 170,000 (1995)[1] |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
aba |
| Glottolog |
abee1242[2] |
Abé (also spelled Abbé, Abbey, Abi) is a language of uncertain classification within the Kwa branch of the Niger–Congo family. It is spoken in Ivory Coast.
The dialects of Abé are Tioffo, Morie, Abbey-Ve, and Kos.
In 1995 there were estimated to be 170,000 speakers, primarily in the Department of Agboville.
References
- ↑ Abé at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Abe". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
External links
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Abé language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator |
- Abé basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
- Listen to a sample of Abé from Global Recordings Network
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