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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Africa > Côte d’Ivoire > Daho-Doo

Daho-Doo

A language of Côte d’Ivoire

ISO 639-3das

Population  4,000 (1996 SIL).
Region  Western Department, north of Tai and south of the Guéré. Doo are in 5 villages south of Guiglo.
Language map  Côte d’Ivoire, reference number 21
Dialects  Although the Daho and Doo are considered Wè, their speech is not understood by other Wè. The greatest lexical similarity they have to any Wè variety is 80%, and the least is 30%. Lexical similarity 92% between the Daho and Doo dialects.
Classification  Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Kru, Western, Wee, Guere-Krahn
Language use  Also use Wè Southern [gxx], but the Wè Southern do not understand Daho or Doo.