Krumen is a
dialect continuum
A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually intelligible, but the differences accumulate over distance so that widely separated varie ...
spoken by the
Krumen people
The Krumen (also Kroumen, Kroomen) is an ethnic group living mostly along the coast of Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire.
Their numbers were estimated to be 48,300 in 1993, of which 28,300 were in Côte d’Ivoire. They are a subgroup of the Gre ...
of
Liberia and
Ivory Coast (
Tabou and
Grabo subprefectures). It is a branch of the
Grebo languages
Grebo is a dialect cluster of the Kru languages, spoken by the Grebo people of present-day Liberia and the Krumen of Ivory Coast in West Africa.
Definition
The first African tribal group contacted by European explorers and Americo-Liberian c ...
, a subfamily of the
Kru languages
The Kru languages are spoken by the Kru people from the southeast of Liberia to the west of Ivory Coast.
Classification
According to Güldemann (2018), Kru lacks sufficient lexical resemblances and noun class resemblances to conclude a relati ...
and ultimately of the
Niger–Congo languages. It had 48,300 speakers in 1993.
[Ethnologue report on Krumen](_blank)
at SIL The main varieties are:
*Tepo: Tepo, Bapo, Wlopo / Ropo, Dapo, Honpo, Yrepo / Kapo, Glawlo dialects
*Pye: Trepo, Wluwe-Hawlo, Gbowe-Hran, Wlepo, Dugbo, Yrewe / Giriwe / Jrwe
ŸÊ€we/ Jrewe,
[Marchese, Lynell. 1983. ''Atlas linguistique Kru: nouvelle edition''. Abidjan: ]Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique
The Agence de coopération culturelle et technique (ACCT, French for ''Agency of cultural and technical cooperation'') was founded in 1970 and was the precursor to what is now the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie. Canadian Jean-Louis ...
(ACCT). Yapo, Pie dialects
*Plapo
Plapo has only a hundred speakers and no dialectal variation.
See also
*
Kru Pidgin English
References
Grebo languages
Languages of Liberia
Languages of Ivory Coast
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