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Kolokwa [4] originated in Liberia among the Settlers, the free English-speaking African Americans from the Southern United States who emigrated to Liberia between 1819 and 1860. It has since borrowed some words from French and from other West African languages. Kreyol is spoken mostly as an intertribal lingua franca in the interior of Liberia. [2]
Liberia is a multilingual country where more than 20 indigenous languages are spoken. English is the official language, and Liberian Koloqua 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.
Kreyol may mean: Antillean Creole French (Kreyol) Haitian Creole (Kreyòl ayisyen) Liberian Kreyol language (Kreyol) Louisiana Creole French (Kréyol lwizyàn)
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 ...
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These links, along with others not listed, support the claim that there is a Liberian Kreyol as well as Haitian. They also support the statement that Liberian Kreyol has "...several Bantu languages as substrate languages.": Creole Language at Absolute Astronomy; Creole Language at Knowledge King--199.4.155.10 16:31, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
The Kru-speaking people are a large ethnic group that is made up of several sub-ethnic groups in Liberia and Ivory Coast. In Liberia, there are 48 sub-sections of Kru tribes, including the Jlao Kru. [5] These tribes include Bété, Bassa, Krumen, Guéré, Grebo, Klao/Krao, Dida, Krahn people and Jabo people.
Merico or Americo-Liberian (or the informal colloquial name "American") is an English-based creole language spoken until recently in Liberia by Americo-Liberians, descendants of original settlers, freed slaves, and African Americans who emigrated from the United States between 1821 and the 1870s.
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