Bakwé
| Bakwé | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Ivory Coast | |
| speaker | 10,300 (1993) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
bjw |
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The Bakwé (ISO 639-3: bjw) is a Krusprache that a total of 10,300 people in the region Bas-Sassandra in the departments of Sassandra , Soubre and San-Pédro in the Ivory Coast is spoken.
It is very similar to the Godié [god] language and belongs to the Niger-Congo language family . Bakwé has different dialects: defa, deple, dafa, nigagba and nyinagbi. Together with the language Wane [hwa] it forms the group Bakwé within the group of the eastern Krus languages.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ bjw
- ↑ (1993 SIL)
- ↑ Ethnologue