The Dewoin language, also known as De, Dey, or Dei, is a
Kru language of the
Niger–Congo language family
A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ''ancestral language'' or ''parental language'', called the proto-language of that family. The term "family" reflects the tree model of language origination in h ...
. It is spoken primarily near the coastal areas of
Montserrado County in western
Liberia, including the capital
Monrovia. It has a
lexical similarity of 0.72 with the
Bassa language.
In 1991, Dewoin was spoken by 8,100 people.
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See also
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Languages of Africa
References
Kru languages
Languages of Liberia
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