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Ligbi (or Ligby) is a Mande language spoken in Ghana in the north-west corner of the Brong-Ahafo Region. Ligbi is spoken by
approximately 10 000 speakers. It is fairly closely related to Jula, Vai and Kono. A small population of Ligbi speakers (4
000) is reported to live in Ivory Coast (Vanderaa 1991). Ligbi is also known as Wela, Hwela or Numu. The latter of these refers
to a subsection of the Ligbi people; Numu is Dyula for 'blacksmith'. The Ligbi area in Ghana is bordered to the west by Nafaanra,
the Senufo language of the Nafana people. The Ligbi people have come to the area of Begho (Bighu), an ancient trading town
on the Tain river in Ghana, in the early 17th century before the Nafana. Ligbi has seven oral and seven nasal vowels. It is
a tonal language with two level tones, High and Low. Syllables are of the form (C1)V(C2) or N, where CV is the most common
syllable type. C1 can be any of the consonants, whereas the optional C2 slot can have only nasals homorganic with the following
consonants, e.g. , gbám mádáánè nine houses, gbán táà ten houses. V (a vowel) alone occurs word-initial only in personal
pronouns, some loan words, and names, e.g. , á jádɛ̀ we have come. |
Names (more)[de] Ligbi[en] Ligbi language |
Language type : Living
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : ligLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/lighttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:lig More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: ligFreebase ISO 639-3 : lig GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |