Nkonya (language)

This article covers the small language in Ghana. For the people of Togo and Ghana see Nkonya (people)

Nkonya
Spoken in	Ghana
speaker	approx. 28,000
Linguistic classification	Niger-Congo Atlantic Congo languages Volta Congo Kwa Nyo Potou-Tano Guang North Guang Nkonya
Official status
Official language in	one of the national languages ​​of Ghana
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	-
ISO 639 -2	nic
ISO 639-3	nko

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

• List of languages ​​in Ghana
• Languages ​​of Ghana

literature

• Brigitte Reineke: The structure of the Nkonya language . Publishing house Enzyklopädie, Leipzig 1972.

Web links

• Ethnologue, Languages ​​of the World: Nkonya

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ethnologue.com: Ethnologue report for language code: nko , accessed on April 13, 2011
2. ^ Wesley Peacock: Nkonya phonology ., Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, 2007
3. ↑ Nkonya dictionary ., 2018 GILLBT