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| has URI | http://lexvo.org/id/term/language/lig |
| has gloss | eng: Ligbi (or Ligby) is a Mande language spoken in Ghana in the north-west corner of the Brong-Ahafo region. Ligbi is spoken by approximately 10 000 speakers (1988 GILLBT/SIL). It is fairly closely related to Bambara/Jula and to Vai and Kono. A small population of Ligbi speakers (4 000) is reported to live in Côte dIvoire (Vanderaa 1991). Ligbi is also known as Wela, Hwela or Numu. The latter of these refers to a subsection of the Ligbi people; Numu is Dyula for blacksmith'. |
| lexicalization | eng: Ligbi language |
| subclass of | e/Jogo languages |
| instance of | http://dbpedia.org/resource/Jogo_languages |
| instance of | http://www.mpii.de/yago/resource/Jogo_languages |
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| German | |
| has gloss | deu: Ligbi (auch Ligwi, Nigbi, Nigwi, Tuba, Banda, Dzowo, Namasa, Tsie, Weila, Wiila, Weela und Jogo) ist eine westafrikanische Sprache mit ca. 15.000 Sprechern in Ghana (2003 GILLBT) und etwa 4.000 Sprechern in der Elfenbeinküste. |
| lexicalization | deu: Ligbi |
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