Krumen language

Krumen
Native to	Ivory Coast, Liberia
Native speakers	50,000 (1993)[1]
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[2]

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.^[3] 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, Yapo, Pie dialects
• Plapo

Plapo has only a hundred speakers and no dialectical variation.

References

1. Tepo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Pye at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Plapo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ivorian [Grebo]". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Ethnologue report on Krumen at SIL