Eastern Gurunsi language primarily of northern Togo
Not to be confused with Khabi language or Kabyle language.
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Kabiye
kabɩyɛ
Region
Benin, Ghana, Togo
Ethnicity
Kabye
Native speakers
(1.0 million cited 1991–2012)[1]
Language family
Niger–Congo?
Atlantic–Congo
Volta–Congo languages
Savannas
Gur
Southern
Gurunsi
Eastern
Kabiye
Writing system
Latin (Kabiye alphabet) Ghanaian braille
Official status
Recognised minority language in
Benin
Language codes
ISO 639-3
kbp
Glottolog
kabi1261
Kabiye ([kàbɪ̀jɛ̀]; also rendered Kabiyé, Kabiyè, Kabye, Kabyé, Kabyè, Cabrai or Cabrais) is an Eastern Gurunsi Gur language spoken primarily in northern Togo. Throughout the 20th century, there was extensive migration to the centre and south of Togo and also to Ghana and Benin. Kabiye speakers made up over 23% of the Togolese population in 1999.[2]
^Kabiye at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^Lébikaza, Kézié Koyenzi (1999). Grammaire kabiyè: une analyse systématique - phonologie, tonologie et morphosyntaxe. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe. p. 33.
Kabiye ([kàbɪ̀jɛ̀]; also rendered Kabiyé, Kabiyè, Kabye, Kabyé, Kabyè, Cabrai or Cabrais) is an Eastern Gurunsi Gur language spoken primarily in northern...
known as Kabiye, Kabre, Cabrai), are a people living in the north central mountains and northern plains of Togo. They speak the Kabiyelanguage. The Kabye...
ɛ ɩ ŋ ɔ, with ⠔ ɩ as in Kabiye. Tem has ɖ ɛ ɩ ŋ ɔ υ, as in Kabiye. In addition, UNESCO reports that various Togolese languages have ⠡ for nasal vowels...
"Organization – Language Secretariat". Retrieved 11 October 2023. "Naissance et évolution de l'Académie Kabiyè". Académie Kabiyè | Kabiye Akademii (in French)...
44 languages spoken. The official language is French. In 1975, the government designated two indigenous languages - Ewé (Ewe: Èʋegbe) and Kabiyé - as...
Grũsi languages are spoken in northern Ghana, adjacent areas of Burkina Faso and Togo. The largest language in the Grusi group is Kabiye, a language spoken...
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dependencies along with their capital cities, in English and non-English official language(s). In bold: internationally recognized sovereign states The 193 member...
the Lama language. There are approximately 200,000 native speakers of Lama in Togo and Bénin. Lama most closely resembles the Kabiyélanguage spoken by...
Kabye may refer to: Kabye people Kabye language This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Kabye. If an internal link led you here...
etc. Capital case variants have been created for use in these languages. For example, Kabiyè of northern Togo has Ɖ ɖ, Ŋ ŋ, Ɣ ɣ, Ɔ ɔ, Ɛ ɛ, Ʋ ʋ. These, and...
letters with common international/African values: (See Ewe Braille and Kabiye Braille for similar code assignments.) Yoruba Braille also has (from English...
Of those, French is the official language, and most of the indigenous languages are considered national languages. Benin is a Francophone country, and...
in the alphabets of several African languages such as Yom, Dagbani, Dinka, Kabiyé, and Ewe, some Berber languages using the Berber Latin alphabet, and...
dialect spoken around Korhogo), and 43% with the non-Senufo languages Mo (or Deg), Kabre (or Kabiye), and Dogon. The relatively low scores of about 60% point...
the larynx than just the glottis. One of the few languages studied thus far, the Togolese languageKabiyé, has a vocalic distinction that had been assumed...
Togo, and to the northwest, by the Kwa-speaking Anii, and the Gur speaking Kabiye, Yom-Lokpa and Tem people of Togo. Significantly Yoruba populations in other...
been adopted as a letter in the alphabets of some African languages, such as Gurunɛ, Kabiyé or Mossi. Its capital form has a hook to distinguish it from...
northern towns. Officially, Ewe and Kabiye are "national languages", which in the Togolese context means languages that are promoted in formal education...
a Gur language of Burkina Faso. A Latin script orthography with 29 letters (including extended characters) and three diacritics (the language has four...
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