Kulango (language)
| Kulango (Bondoukou) and (Bouna) | ||
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Spoken in |
Ivory Coast , Ghana | |
| speaker | 104,000 (Bondoukou), 157,500 (Bouna) (1993) | |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | national language only | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
nic |
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| ISO 639-3 | ||
The Kulango is the language of the Kulango people in Ivory Coast , which is also spoken in Ghana .
Basically, a distinction is made between two language groups, Kulango (Bonboukou) and Kulango (Bouna).
Kulango (Bonboukou) (also Nkuraeng , Nkurange , Koulango , Kulange , Kolango and Bonduku Kulango ) is spoken by about 77,000 people in the Ivory Coast. The main distribution area of Kulango (Bonboukou) is in the eastern administrative district in the Département de Bondoukou . In Ghana , Kulango (Bonboukou) is spoken by 27,000 speakers (2003 GILLBT ) in the central west of Ghana, west of Wenchi .
Kulango (Bouna) (also Koulango , Kulange , Nkuraeng , Nkurange , Nkuraeng , Buna Kulango , Bouna Koulango ) is spoken by approx. 142,000 (1993) people in the Ivory Coast. In Ghana, around 15,500 people speak Kulango (Bouna).
The speakers of Kulango (Bouna) should be able to understand Kulango (Bonboukou), but the reverse is not true. Dialects of Kulani (Bouna) are Sekwa and Nabanj. Both occur in Ghana, only Nabanj is spoken in Ivory Coast.