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Kru
Geographic distribution
Ivory Coast, Liberia, Burkina Faso
Linguistic classification
Niger–Congo?
Kru
Proto-language
Proto-Kru
Subdivisions
Aizi (5)
Eastern Kru (4)
Kuwaa (2)
Siamou (1)
Western Kru (3)
ISO 639-2 / 5
kro
Glottolog
krua1234(Kru) siam1242(Siamou)
Kru languages, labeled as above
The Kru languages are spoken by the Kru people from the southeast of Liberia to the west of Ivory Coast.
The Krulanguages are spoken by the Kru people from the southeast of Liberia to the west of Ivory Coast. According to Güldemann (2018), Kru lacks sufficient...
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...
quadrant are Krulanguages, such as Bete and We (Gure/Wobe), half a million apiece, and Dida (a quarter million), related to the languages of Liberia....
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...
Kru, KRU may refer to: Kanchanaburi Rajabhat University (KRU) Kru people, ethnic group in Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire Krulanguages, the group of dialects...
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...
Grebo is a Krulanguage of Liberia. All of the Grebo languages are referred to as Grebo, though in Ivory Coast, Krumen is the usual name. The Grebo people...
(Wiktionary) Gbe languagesKrulanguages Gur languages MEK Dakubu (2005). "Kwa Languages". In Keith Brown (ed.). Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics...
subprefectures). It is a branch of the Grebo languages, a subfamily of the Krulanguages and ultimately of the Niger–Congo languages. It had 48,300 speakers in 1993...
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...
the Krulanguage 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...
The Siamou language, also known as Seme (Sɛmɛ), is a language spoken mainly in Burkina Faso. It is part of the Krulanguages or unclassified within the...
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...
uncommon Unicode characters in this article correctly. The Bassa language is a Krulanguage spoken by about 600,000 Bassa people in Liberia, Ivory Coast,...
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...
Klao (also Klaoh), or Kru, is a Krulanguage of the Niger–Congo language family, spoken primarily in Liberia, with some speakers also in Sierra Leone,...
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...
Grebo is a dialect cluster of the Krulanguages, spoken by the Grebo people of present-day Liberia and the Krumen of Ivory Coast in West Africa. The first...
language isolates by continent Lists of languages List of proposed language families "What are the largest language families?". Ethnologue. May 25, 2019...
endangered languages. The Kisan dialect has 206,100 speakers as of 2011. Kurukh belongs to the Northern Dravidian group of the Dravidian family languages, and...
Dong language has nine to 15 tones by the same measure. One of the Krulanguages, Wobé, has been claimed to have 14, though this is disputed. The most...
Dida lects have consonant and vowel inventories typical of the Eastern Krulanguages. However, tone varies significantly between dialects, or at least between...