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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

30

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Ghana-Togo Mountain Languages Locations
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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

30

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Young adult speakers

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More about speakers

"All speakers are over 35 years old."

Year of info

Location and Context

Countries

Ghana

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Location description

Volta Region, villages of Kecheibi and Kunda

Government support

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Other writing systems

Volta Region, villages of Kecheibi and Kunda

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Other languages used

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

~250

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Child speakers

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Year of info

1992

Location and Context

Countries

Ghana

Coordinates

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Location description

"Kecheibi and Kunda villages"

Government support

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Speakers’s attitudes

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Other writing systems

"Kecheibi and Kunda villages"

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Other languages used

Adele; Twi

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

A few

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

500

Non-monolingual speakers

Many

More about speakers

"There are only a few fluent speakers left of this so-called Togo-Remnant (Niger-Congo) language, all of whom are over forty."

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Ghana

Coordinates

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Location description

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Government support

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Other languages used

Twi

Domains of other languages

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More on context

"The Kwa language Twi (Akan), spoken by many Anyimere as a second language, appears to be becoming increasingly important as a first language for the Anyimere."

Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

700

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

7.6129,.4064

Location description

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Government support

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

700

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Child speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

"Reported as not being passed on to children."

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Ghana;

Coordinates

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Location description

"East central, Kecheibi and Kunda villages, remote."

Government support

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Speakers’s attitudes

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Other writing systems

"East central, Kecheibi and Kunda villages, remote."

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Akan

Domains of other languages

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No data

Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

700

Domains of Use

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  8. African noun class systems
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