Languages ​​of the Ivory Coast

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The native languages ​​of Ivory Coast belong to two language groups within the Niger-Congo language family : the Volta-Congo languages in the east and south and the Mande languages in the northwest.

Within the Volta-Congo languages, the four main groups Gur (Voltaic) are predominant in the northeast, Kru in the southwest, Kwa in the southeast and Senufo in the north.

The French language is the official language. In total there are 79 different languages ​​and idioms in Ivory Coast . The Mande language Dioula , as well as Bambara , are the native languages ​​that are spoken most frequently. Among the other idioms of the Kru languages, the most common are Neyo , Bété , Dida , Nyabwa , Wê and Krahn ; of the Kwa languages ​​it is the Abé , the Abouré , the Abron , the Adjoukrou and the Avikam .

literature

  • Maurice Delafosse : Vocabulaires comparatifs de plus de 60 langues or dialectes parlés à la Côte d'Ivoire et dans les régions limitrophes: avec des notes linguistiques et ethnologiques, une bibliographie et une carte . Paris, E. Leroux, 1904, p. 284.
  • Georges Hérault (dir.): Atlas des langues kwa de Côte d'Ivoire . Université d'Abidjan, Institut de linguistique appliquée, 1982, ISBN 2-7166-0228-X , p. 509.

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