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
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 �ʀwe/ 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.

References

Grebo languages Languages of Liberia Languages of Ivory Coast {{Liberia-stub

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