Deg (language)
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Spoken in |
Ghana | |
speaker | 27,500 (2003) | |
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Official language in | one of the national languages of Ghana | |
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ISO 639 -2 |
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Deg is the language of the African Deg and is used by about 35,000 (2014) speakers west of the Volta reservoir in the Central Region (Ghana) in Ghana .
Another 1,700 speakers live in Ivory Coast .
Alternative names are Degha, Mo, Mmfo, Aculo, Janela, and Buru. Well-known dialects are Longoro, Mangum and Boe. Deg has 78% similarities with Vagla .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Degha | Languages and Peoples of the Earth | Langwhich Lexicon. Retrieved April 22, 2019 .