Kebu language

Akebu or Kebu (also Kabu; in French: akébou) is one of the Ghana–Togo Mountain languages spoken by the Akebu people of southern Togo and southeastern Ghana. It is a tonal language with nominal classes. Akebu is closely related to the Animere language.

Akebu
Kebu
Native toGhana, Togo
Native speakers
70,000 (2012)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3keu
Glottologakeb1238[2]
Akebu
PeopleƏkpəβə
CountryKᵼkpəkə

In 2002 there were about 56,400 speakers, located primarily in the Akébou district of the Plateau Region of Togo.

Bibliography
  • Yao Koffi, Akebu-Deutsch-Wörterbuch, Deutsches Akademischen Austauschdienstes, Sarrebruck (Allemagne), 1981, 433 p.
  • Yao Koffi, Sprachkontakt und Kulturkontakt : eine Untersuchung zur Mehrsprachigkeit bei den Akebu in Togo, Sarrebruck, 1984, 180 p.
  • Jacques Sossoukpe, Vitalité ethnolinguistique suivie d'une esquisse phonologique de l'Akébou, Lomé (Togo), 2008.
gollark: So, *can* I install potatOS on the SC ocean monument?
gollark: Also CN, actually, and that wasn't too bad despite the mekanism.
gollark: I ran *TC6.1*.
gollark: Yes, SC.
gollark: Also Terra, can I install potatOS in your ocean monument?

References
  1. Akebu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Akebu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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