Abure

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Abure

Spoken in

Ivory Coast
speaker 55,000 (1993)
Linguistic
classification

Niger-Congo

Language codes
ISO 639-3

abu

The language Abure (also abouré, Abule, akaplass and abonwa called; ISO 639-3: abu) is one of two Western Tano languages within the Kwa language group , the total of 55,120 people from the ethnic group of the Abure in the Ivory Coast is spoken .

A significant number of the speakers live in the former capital Abidjan .

Many Abure speakers are bilingual with Anyin , a Bia language , and most recently with French , the country's official language. The Abure is related to the Beti .

There are - u. a. by developing a spelling and teaching it - the effort to keep this language alive and to better teach the non-French-speaking speakers.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. abu
  2. (1993 SIL)
  3. Ethnologue