Abé language

Abé
Region	Ivory Coast
Ethnicity	Abbé
Native speakers	(170,000 cited 1995)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Kwa Abé; ; ;
Writing system	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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[e18-1] Abé at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Abe". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.