Konobo language

Konobo
Eastern Krahn
Native to Liberia
Ethnicity Krahn
Native speakers
(undated figure of 74,000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kqo
Glottolog east2414[2]

Konobo, or Eastern Krahn, is a Kru language of Liberia.

Krahn is part of the Wee dialect continuum. Whereas Konobo dialect may be considered a distinct language from Western Krahn dialects, both are intelligible with intermediate dialects.

References

  1. Konobo at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Eastern Krahn". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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