The Gbi and Dorue language, also known as Gbee or Gbi and Dorue, is similar to the
Krahn 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 in northern
Liberia which is a district within
Nimba County. Its dialects include Gbi and Dorue. It has a
lexical similarity of 0.78 with the
Bassa language, and so might be considered a Bassa dialect.
In 1991, Gbi was spoken by 18,600 people.
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See also
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Languages of Africa
References
Kru languages
Languages of Liberia
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