Kpee language

Person	Kpee
People	Kpeera
Language	Kpeego

Kpee
	Numu
	Kpeego
Native to	scattered throughout southwest Ivory Coast
Ethnicity	Kpeera (Numu)
Native speakers	≈ 2,000 (2012)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Mande Western Mande Central Manding–Jogo Jogo–Jeri Jogo Kpee; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cpo
Glottolog	kpee1234[2]

The Kpee language, Kpeego, commonly called Numu (Noumoukan), is a Mande language spoken by blacksmiths (numu) in Burkina Faso. It is thought to be similar to Ligbi in Ghana, but no comparison has been done.

References

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

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[e18-1] Kpee at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kpeego". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.