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Liberia is a multilingual country where more than 20 indigenous languages are spoken. English is the official language, and Liberian Kreyol is the vernacular lingua franca, though mostly spoken as a second language. The native Niger–Congo languages can be grouped in four language families: Mande, Kru, Mel, and the divergent language Grebo.
Pages in category "Languages of Liberia" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The official language of Liberia is English. [1] There are also more than 16 indigenous languages. [1] Among the most widely studied Liberian languages in schools and universities are Kpelle and Bassa languages and to a lesser extent, Vai. Loma and Mende also have their own unique alphabets but are studied less.
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] ... Liberia: 31 3 34 0.48 4,290,730 134,085 85,600
Below is a list of language isolates and otherwise unclassified languages in Africa, ... Cameroon, Kenya, South Africa, Liberia, Zambia, Malawi, Rwanda, Namibia, ...
Liberian Settler English the language of the descendants of the 16,000 African Americans who immigrated to Liberia in the nineteenth century; Kru Pidgin English the language of Kru migrant workers and mariners. It is now moribund. Liberian Kreyol the creolized variety spoken by most Liberian speakers of English. It is the Liberian descendant of ...
The Kru people and their languages, although now many speak English (in Liberia) or French (in Côte d'Ivoire) as a second language, are said to be "dominant in the southwest region where the forest zone reaches the coastal lagoons". [3] The Kru people rely on the forest for farming, supplemented by hunting for their livelihood.
2 List of languages by the number of countries in which they are the most widely used. 3 Official regional and minority languages. ... Liberia; Malawi (with Chichewa)