Wè Northern
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A language of Côte d’Ivoire
ISO 639-3
Alternate Names
Ouobe, Wobé, Wèè
Autonym
Wɛɛ
Population
265,000 (Leclerc 2017c).
Location
Montagnes district: Fakobly and Kouibly subprefectures.
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Language Status
5* (Developing).
Dialects
Tao, Péomé, Sémien (Gbéan). Kouibly dialect intelligible to about half of Wè Southern [gxx] speakers. Lexical similarity: 90%–94% among dialects, Kouibly dialect (Tao and Gbean) has 84%–89% lexical similarity with Wè Southern dialects.
Typology
Whistle speech reported.
Language Development
Literacy rate in L1: 1%–5%. Literacy rate in L2: 15%–25%. Grammar. NT: 1984–2010.
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Writing
Latin script [Latn].
Christian, traditional religion.