• Threatened

  20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 6,000

  Native speakers worldwide
• Ethnic population

  6,000

• MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS

  6,000 (1995 H. Massanvi Gblem). No monolinguals. Ethnic population: 6,000

DATE OF INFO

1995

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

• French

• Ewe

• Ikposo

• Lelemi

• Sekpele

• Akan

• Tem

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

Vigorous. All domains. Also use French or Éwé [ewe]. Some also speak Ikposo [kpo], Lelemi [lef], Sekpele [lip], Akan [aka], or Tem [kdh].

PLACES

Togo

LOCATION DESCRIPTION

Plateau region, Apeyeme Prefecture, Bogo-Ahlon Canton, Sassanou village area.

• Threatened

  20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• ~6,300

  Native speakers worldwide

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

• Ewe

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

"The Kwa language Ewe is becoming more and more of a first language for the Igo people."

• Ethnic population

  2000-3000

PLACES

Southwest Togo