About Ega - EMELD School of Best Practices
Dafydd Gibbon, Bruce Connell and Firmin Ahoua. 2006. "About Ega - EMELD School of Best Practices." In EMELD School of Best Practices, Institute for Language Information and Technology. Online: http://emeld.org/school/case/ega/about.html.
Severely Endangered
40 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<1000
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends
Speaker Number Trend 4
Less than half of the community speaks the language, and speaker numbers are decreasing at an accelerated pace.
4
Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
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Children:
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Elders
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Ethnic or community population
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Location and Context
Countries
Côte d'Ivoire
Location Description
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Government Support
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Institutional Support
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Speakers' Attitude
Negative
Other Languages Used By The Community
Dida, French, Baule, Bété
Number of Other Language Speakers:
All
Domains of Other Languages:
Dida in public; French in schools
Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Recent Resources
Message informatif
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Use of Ega deprecated among Ega speakers; self-characterisation as Dida speakers to outsiders. Preference for exogenous marriage among Ega men, invariably with Dida women. Use of French in education official communications and recent introduction of major Ivorian languages to schools e.g. Baule (Kwa), Bété (Kru), effectively requiring Ega speakers to be trilingual or quadrilingual."