Nkonya (language)
Nkonya | ||
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Spoken in |
Ghana | |
speaker | approx. 28,000 | |
Linguistic classification |
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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 |
nic |
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ISO 639-3 |
Nkonya is a small language in Ghana with around 28,000 speakers in the south-east of the country, north-west of the Ewe language area.
It is the mother tongue of the Nkonya people. A phonology and dictionary are available.
Some speakers can also be found near the Gua language area.
See also
literature
- Brigitte Reineke: The structure of the Nkonya language . Publishing house Enzyklopädie, Leipzig 1972.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ ethnologue.com: Ethnologue report for language code: nko , accessed on April 13, 2011
- ^ Wesley Peacock: Nkonya phonology ., Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, 2007
- ↑ Nkonya dictionary ., 2018 GILLBT