Ega
Diés; Egwa;
Niger-Congo; Atlantic-Congo
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"Small number of speakers; estimates vary wildly from several thousand two decades ago (Bolé-Richard 1982) to currently less than 300 (Ethnologue); preliminary field investigations indicate that there is a small group of non-proximate Ega villages, with a total but rapidly decreasing population of no more than 1000."
2006
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Côte d'Ivoire
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Dida, French, Baule, Bété
Dida in public; French in schools
"Enclaved in the Dida (Kru) speech community. Speakers perfectly fluent in Dida, which they use as a public language. Perception of enclaving Dida community as stronger, dominant, efficient, high prestige... Use of Ega deprecated among Ega speakers; self-characterisation as Dida speakers to outsiders. Preference for exogenous marriage among Ega men, invariably with Dida women. Use of French in education official communications and recent introduction of major Ivorian languages to schools e.g. Baule (Kwa), Bété (Kru), effectively requiring Ega speakers to be trilingual or quadrilingual."
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1992
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Southern Department, Ivory Coast
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"Ivory Coast, Sothern Department, Dies Canton of Divo Sub-Prefecture and Dies Canton of Guitry Sub-Prefecture."
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"Ivory Coast, Sothern Department, Dies Canton of Divo Sub-Prefecture and Dies Canton of Guitry Sub-Prefecture."
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"Being replaced by the surrounding Dida speaking population."
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"The population is switching to Dida."
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- Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
- About Ega - EMELD School of Best PracticesDafydd Gibbon, Bruce Connell and Firmin Ahoua. 2006. "About Ega - EMELD School of Best Practices." In EMELD School of Best Practices, Institute for Language Information and Technology. Online: http://emeld.org/school/case/ega/about.html.http://emeld.org/school/case/ega/about.html
- The Ega Language of Côte d'Ivoire: Etymologies and Implications for ClassificationRoger Blench. 2004. "The Ega Language of Côte D'Ivoire: Etymologies and Implications For Classification." Online: http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Niger-Congo/Kwa/Ega.pdf.http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Niger-Congo/Kwa/Ega.pdf
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- Inventaire préliminaire des langues et dialectes de Côte d’IvoireFrick, Esther and Margrit Bolli. 1971. "Inventaire Préliminaire Des Langues Et Dialectes De Côte D’Ivoire." In Actes du 8ème congrès international de linguistique africaine, Abidjan, 24-28 mars 1969, edited by Maurice Houïs. v. 1: 395-416.
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