Kpelle (language)
| Kpelle (also Kpèlé) | ||
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Spoken in |
Liberia , Guinea | |
| speaker | 150,000 | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | nowhere official language | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
kpe |
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| ISO 639-3 |
kpe, gkp |
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The Kpelle (also written Kpèlé ) is a language of the Mande group , a branch of the Niger-Congo languages . Kpelle is spoken by the ethnic group also called Kpelle in Liberia (500,000 speakers, [kpe]) and Guinea (300,000, [gkp]).
The Kpelle developed their own writing system for their language, the Kpelle script . Wilton GS Sankawulo , writer and university professor from the Kpelle people, later even Liberian President, translated the Bible into the language of the Kpelle.
literature
- Siegmund Brauner et al .: Common and national languages in Africa . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1985, Liberia, p. 120-122 .