Kpelle language

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Kpelle
Kpɛlɛwoo
Spoken in: Liberia, Guinea
Total speakers: —
Language family: Niger-Congo
 Mande
  Western
   Central-Southwestern
    Southwestern
     Kpelle
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: kpe
ISO 639-3: variously:
kpe – Kpelle (generic)
gkp – Guinea Kpelle
xpe – Liberia Kpelle
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Kpelle language is spoken by the Kpelle people.

The language is part of the Mande family of languages.

ISO 639 defines it as macrolanguage, with the more specific ones:

  • Guinea Kpelle [gkp] (also known as Guerze in French), spoken by some 300,000 [1]
  • Liberia Kpelle [xpe] ,spoken by some 480,000 [2]

This language is currently taught in schools in Liberia.

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