The Kru languages are spoken by the Kru people from the southeast of Liberia to the west of Ivory Coast. According to Güldemann (2018), Kru lacks sufficient...
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Kru, KRU may refer to: Kanchanaburi Rajabhat University (KRU) Kru people, ethnic group in Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire Kru languages, the group of dialects...
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The Kru, Krao, Kroo, or Krou are a West African ethnic group who are indigenous to western Ivory Coast and eastern Liberia. European and American writers...
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The Bété languages are a language cluster of Kru languages spoken in central-western Ivory Coast. There are many dialects but they can be grouped as follows:...
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quadrant are Kru languages, such as Bete and We (Gure/Wobe), half a million apiece, and Dida (a quarter million), related to the languages of Liberia....
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as a second language. The native Niger-Congo languages can be grouped in four language families: Mande, Kru, Mel, and the divergent language Grebo . Kpelle-speaking...
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Krumen people (section The Kru languages)
Encyclopædia Britannica, was that the term Kru or Krumen derived from Klao, which is the name of the Kru in their language. Their numbers were estimated to be...
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Grebo is a Kru language of Liberia. All of the Grebo languages are referred to as Grebo, though in Ivory Coast, Krumen is the usual name. The Grebo people...
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Ijoid, Siamou, Kru, the Katla and Rashad languages (previously classified as Kordofanian), and perhaps some or all of the Ubangian languages. Hans Günther...
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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...
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Krahn people (category Language articles citing Ethnologue 25)
the Kru language family and its people are sometimes referred to as the Wee, Guéré, Sapo, or Wobe. It is likely that Western contact with the Kru language...
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hypothetical language family spoken over the majority of sub-Saharan Africa. It unites the Mande languages, the Atlantic–Congo languages (which share...
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(Wiktionary) Gbe languages Kru languages Gur languages MEK Dakubu (2005). "Kwa Languages". In Keith Brown (ed.). Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics...
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Tone (linguistics) (redirect from Tonal languages)
transcribing the Kru languages of Liberia, but with 1 for low and 5 for high for the Omotic languages of Ethiopia. The tone ⟨53⟩ in a Kru language is thus the...
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The Siamou language, also known as Seme (Sɛmɛ), is a language spoken mainly in Burkina Faso. It is part of the Kru languages or unclassified within the...
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Aizi (Aïzi, Ahizi, Ezibo) speak three languages around Ébrié Lagoon in Ivory Coast. Two of the languages are Kru. They are divergent enough for intelligibility...
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Wobé (Ouobe) is a Kru language spoken in Ivory Coast. It is one of several languages in a dialect continuum called Wèè (Wɛɛ). Wobé is known for claims...
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Gergasi KRU 25, held from 4 to 6 May. In addition to the band, the KRU group of companies include the vocational college KRU Academy, KRU Music, KRU Media...
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uncommon Unicode characters in this article correctly. The Bassa language is a Kru language spoken by about 600,000 Bassa people in Liberia, Ivory Coast,...
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that it excludes the Atlantic languages and, in some conceptions, Kru and Senufo. In the infobox at the right, the languages which appear to be the most...
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Klao (also Klaoh), or Kru, is a Kru language of the Niger–Congo language family, spoken primarily in Liberia, with some speakers also in Sierra Leone,...
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ISO 639-2 (redirect from Collective languages)
Indo-European languages ira Iranian languages iro Iroquoian languages kar Karen languages khi Khoisan languages kro Kru languages map Austronesian languages mkh...
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within the larger Kru group of West Africa Grebo language, their language Grebo languages, a dialect cluster of the Kru languages Grebo (music), a United...
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Liberian English (redirect from Liberian English language)
o, which is a feature generally of Kru and Kwa languages but shows up in other neighboring Niger-Congo languages as well as in West African varieties...
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KRU Studios is a Malaysian media and entertainment company. Founded in 1992, KRU Studios has since diversified and now provides a range of services related...
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language isolates by continent Lists of languages List of proposed language families "What are the largest language families?". Ethnologue. May 25, 2019...
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The Sapo language, also known as Sarpo or Southern Krahn, is a Kru language of the Niger–Congo language family. It is spoken in eastern Liberia, primarily...
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The Tajuasohn language, also known as Tajuason, Tajuoso, and Tajuosohn, is a Kru language of the Niger–Congo language family. It is spoken primarily in...
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Ivory Coast. The Bassa speak the Bassa language, a Kru language that belongs to the Niger-Congo family of languages. They had their own pictographic writing...
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Kwadia (Kodia) is a minor Kru language of Ivory Coast. Kwadia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) v t e v t e...
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