Key facts
- Native to
- Ghana
- Region
- South-eastern Ghana , east of Accra
- Ethnicity
- Dangbe
- Native speakers
- 1,020,000 (2013)
- Language family
- Niger–Congo ? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Kwa Ga-Dangme Dangme
- Writing system
- Latin (Dangbe alphabet)
- Official language in
- Ghana
- Iso 639 2
- ada
- Iso 639 3
- ada
- Glottolog
- adan1247
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- Dangme language
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The Dangme language, also written Dangbe or Dangbɛ, and less properly Adangme, Dangbe or Adaŋgbi, is a Kwa language spoken in south-eastern Ghana by the Dangme people (Dangmeli). They are part of the larger Ga-Dangme ethnic group. Klogbi is a variant, spoken by the Kloli (Klo or Krobo People). Kropp Dakubu (1987) is the most thorough grammar of the language.
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