Liberia is a multilingual country where more than 20 indigenous languages are spoken. English is the official language, and Liberian Kreyol is the vernacular lingua franca, though mostly spoken as a second language. The native Niger-Congo languages can be grouped in four language families: Mande, Kru, Mel, and the divergent language Grebo
.[1][2] Kpelle-speaking people are the largest single linguistic group.
^Ethnologue page on Languages of Liberia Archived 2011-10-18 at the Wayback Machine
^"Aménagement linguistique dans le monde - Liberia". Archived from the original on 2012-09-13. Retrieved 2009-11-23.
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