Adele (language)
| Adele | ||
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Spoken in |
Ghana , Togo | |
| speaker | approx. 27,000 | |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | one of the national languages of Ghana | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 | ( B ) - | ( T ) - |
Adele (also Gidire and Bidire ) is an endangered West African language and is the language of the Adele ethnic group .
In 2003, the number of Adele speakers in Ghana was given as 11,000 to 12,000. An estimated 15,000 speakers live in Togo . This language is spoken on the border with Togo.
According to dialects, the language can be divided into Upper Adele and Lower Adele .
See also
literature
- Bernd Heine , The distribution and structure of the Togorest languages. Berlin, Dietrich Reimer, 1968.