Krumen | |
States: | Ivory Coast, Liberia |
Date: | 1993 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
Fam3: | Kru |
Fam4: | Western Kru |
Fam5: | Grebo |
Lc1: | ted |
Ld1: | Tepo |
Lc2: | pye |
Ld2: | Pye |
Lc3: | ktj |
Ld3: | Plapo |
Glotto: | ivor1240 |
Glottorefname: | Ivorian Grebo |
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.[1] The main varieties are:
Plapo has only a hundred speakers and no dialectal variation.