Krumen language

Krumen
Krumen
Native to	Ivory Coast, Liberia
Native speakers	(50,000 cited 1993)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Kru Western Kru Grebo Krumen; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously:; ted – Tepo; pye – Pye; ktj – Plapo
Glottolog	ivor1240
ELP	Plapo Krumen

Krumen is a dialect continuum spoken by the Krumen people of Liberia and Ivory Coast (Tabou and Grabo subprefectures). It is a branch of the Grebo languages, a subfamily of the Kru languages and ultimately of the Niger–Congo languages. It had 48,300 speakers in 1993.^[2] 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 [ɟʀwe] / Jrewe,^[3] Yapo, Pie dialects
Plapo

Plapo has only a hundred speakers and no dialectal variation.

References[edit]

^ Tepo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Pye at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Plapo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Ethnologue report on Krumen at SIL
^ Marchese, Lynell. 1983. Atlas linguistique Kru: nouvelle edition. Abidjan: Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique (ACCT).

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