The Dewoin language, also known as De, Dey, or Dei, is a
Kru
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language of the
Niger–Congo language family
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. It is spoken primarily near the coastal areas of
Montserrado County
Montserrado County is a county in the northwestern portion of the West African nation of Liberia containing its national capital, Monrovia. One of 15 counties that comprise the first-level of administrative division in the nation, it has 17 sub p ...
in western
Liberia
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, including the capital
Monrovia
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. It has a
lexical similarity
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of 0.72 with the
Bassa language
The Bassa language is a Kru language spoken by about 600,000 Bassa (Liberia), Bassa people in Liberia, Ivory Coast, and Sierra Leone.
Phonology
Consonants
* /ʄ/ can be heard as a glide intervocalically within compound words.
* /ɡ͡b/ ...
.
In 1991, Dewoin was spoken by 8,100 people.
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See also
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Languages of Africa
The languages of Africa are divided into several major language families:
* Niger–Congo or perhaps Atlantic–Congo languages (includes Bantu and non-Bantu, and possibly Mande and others) are spoken in West, Central, Southeast and Southern ...
References
Kru languages
Languages of Liberia
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