Kebu language

Akebu
Kebu
Native to Ghana, Togo
Native speakers
70,000 (2012)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 keu
Glottolog akeb1238[2]
Akebu
People Əkpəβə
Country Kᵼkpəkə

Akebu or Kebu (also Kabu; in French: akébou) is one of the Ghana–Togo Mountain languages spoken by the Akebu people of southern Togo and southeastern Ghana. It is a language with nominal classes (and a tonal language?). Akebu is closely related to the Animere language.

In 2002 there were about 56,400 speakers, located primarily in the Akébou district of the Plateau Region of Togo.

Bibliography

References

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


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