Endangered Languages Project - Mpra

Mpra

^{[aka Mpre,]}

Classification: Unclassified

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dormant

Mpra is a language of Ghana. It has lexical items with cognates in Atlantic-Congo, as well as lexical items without plausible cognates. Its classification is thus unclear.

ALSO KNOWN AS		Mpre
CLASSIFICATION		Unclassified, Niger-Congo?
CODE AUTHORITY		LINGUIST List
LANGUAGE CODE		1ix
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Information from: “Recovering data on Mpra [=Mpre] a possible language isolate in North-Central Ghana” . Roger Blench (2007)

Dormant
No known fluent speakers
Native speakers worldwide
ELDERS
5
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
5 rememberers

DATE OF INFO: 2007

PLACES: Ghana

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "Well off the beaten track there lies in the Southern Province of the Northern Territories the curious village of Butie….Butie is the last survivor of a group of villages where long ago there dwelt the people called by themselves Mpre."

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