The Lélé language, ''Lélémrin,'' also known as Tiagba ''(Tiagbamrin)'' after its principal town, is a
Kru language
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 relation ...
spoken by ethnic Aizi ''(Ahizi)'' on the shores of
Ébrié Lagoon
The Ébrié Lagoon lies in Ivory Coast, separated for almost all of its length from the Atlantic Ocean by a narrow coastal strip. The long lagoon is linked to the sea by the Vridi Canal, while the Comoë River flows into it. The lagoon averages ...
in Ivory Coast. It is not intelligible with
Mobu, also spoken by Aizi at the lagoon.
The Lele
endonym
An endonym (from Greek: , 'inner' + , 'name'; also known as autonym) is a common, ''native'' name for a geographical place, group of people, individual person, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside that particular place, group, o ...
for all Aizi is ''Prokpo'' for the people (or in Tiagba ''Krokpo''), ''Prokpamrin'' for the language.
References
Kru languages
Languages of Ivory Coast
Languages of Africa
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