Lelemi language
| Lelemi | |
|---|---|
| Lefana | |
| Native to | Ghana |
| Region | Jasikan |
| Ethnicity | Buem |
Native speakers | 49,000 (2003)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
lef |
| Glottolog |
lele1264[2] |
Lelemi or Lefana (Lε-lεmi, Lε-fana) is spoken by the Buem people in the mountainous Volta Region of Ghana. It belongs to the geographic group of Ghana Togo Mountain languages (traditionally called the Togorestsprachen or Togo Remnant languages) of the Kwa branch of Niger–Congo.
References
- ↑ Lelemi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Lelemi". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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