Kpee
Numu
Kpeego
Native toscattered throughout southwest Ivory Coast
EthnicityKpeera (Numu)
Native speakers
≈ 2,000 (2012)[1]
Niger–Congo
  • Mande
    • Western Mande
      • Central
        • Manding–Jogo
Language codes
ISO 639-3cpo
Glottologkpee1234
PersonKpee
PeopleKpeera
LanguageKpeego

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

  1. ↑ Kpee at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)


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