Adele language

Adele
Gidire
Region	Ghana and Togo
Native speakers	37,000 (2003–2012)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Kwa Anii–Adere Adele
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ade
Glottolog	adel1244[2]

Adele
People	Bidire
Language	Gidire

The Adele language is spoken in central eastern Ghana and central western Togo. It belongs to the geographic group of Ghana Togo Mountain languages (traditionally called the Togorestsprachen or Togo Remnant languages) of the Kwa branch of Niger–Congo. The speakers themselves call the language Gidire.

References

1. Adele at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Adele". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

• Bernd Heine, Die Verbreitung und Gliederung der Togorestsprachen. Berlin, Dietrich Reimer, 1968.