Kakabe language

Mande language of Guinea
Kakabe
Native toGuinea
Ethnicity50,000 (2012)[1]
Native speakers
10,000 (2012)[1]
Language family
Niger–Congo
  • Mande
    • Western Mande
      • Central–Western
        • Central Mande
          • Manding–Jogo
            • Manding–Vai
              • Manding–Mokole
                • Mokole
                  • Kakabe
Language codes
ISO 639-3kke
Glottologkaka1265

Kakabe is a Mande language of Guinea. The speakers of the Kakabe language reside in the Futa-Jallon plateau which is located in Guinea.[2] Kakabe belongs to the Mokole group, which is the closest group to the Manding people in terms of culture and language. The language is spoken in a number of villages that are situated on the Futa-Jallon plateau in Guinea.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Kakabe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b Vydrina, Alexandra. "Collection Kakabe".

External links

  • Audio and video resources in the Kakabe language by Alexandra Vydrina (site: Pangloss Collection)
  • ELAR archive of Description and Documentation of the Kakabe language by Alexandra Vydrina (site: ELAR)
  • Kakabe DoReCo corpus compiled by Alexandra Vydrina. Audio recordings of narrative texts with transcriptions time-aligned at the phone level, translations, and time-aligned morphological annotations.


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