Kabye language

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Kabye language is a Gur language spoken primarily in northern Togo and parts of neighboring West African countries by the Kabye people.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Kabye language canonical 2
Kabre language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Gur language
Niger–Congo language
language
alternateName Kabiye
Kabiyè
linked to: Kabiye

Kabye
belongsToMacroArea Africa
closelyRelatedTo Gurma languages
linked to: Gurma language

Tem language
countryOfficialStatus recognized national language of Togo
ethnicGroup Kabye people
hasDialects northern Kabye
southern Kabye
hasGlottocode kabi1260
hasGlottologName Kabiye
hasISO639-3Code kbp
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Ewe language
linked to: Ewe

French
Hausa language
hasLinguisticResearch described in grammars and dictionaries
hasMorphosyntacticAlignment nominative–accusative
hasNumberOfSpeakers over 1 million speakers
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
nasal consonants
tone distinctions
hasStandardization orthography developed in 20th century
hasWordOrder SVO
languageFamily Niger–Congo
nativeName Kabɩyɛ
linked to: Kabiye
primaryRegion northern Togo
regionOfUse Kara Region, Togo
Plateaux Region, Togo
spokenIn Benin
Ghana
Togo
West Africa
subfamilyOf Eastern Gurunsi languages
linked to: Gur languages

Gur languages
typologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
noun class system
tone language
usedBy Kabye diaspora communities
usedFor oral literature
radio broadcasting in Togo
religious practice
usedInEducation non-formal education programs in Togo
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Gur languages hasMemberLanguage Kabye language
Kabiye altName Kabye language
Southern Gur languages hasLanguage Kabre language
linked to: Kabye language