Kpee language

Kpee
Numu
Kpeego
Native to scattered throughout southwest Ivory Coast
Ethnicity Kpeera (Numu)
Native speakers
≈ 2,000 (2012)[1]
Niger–Congo
  • Mande

    • Western Mande
      • Central
        • Manding–Jogo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 cpo
Glottolog kpee1234[2]
Person Kpee
People Kpeera
Language Kpeego

The Kpee language, Kpeego, commonly called Numu (Noumoukan), is a Mande language spoken by blacksmiths (numu) in Burkina Faso. It is thought to be similar to Ligbi in Ghana, but no comparison has been done.

References

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


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