Native to Liberia ISO 639-3 ggb | Native speakers (5,600 cited 1991) Glottolog gbii1242 | |
Language family Niger–Congo
Atlantic–Congo
Kru
Western
Bassa
Gbi and Dorue | ||
The Gbi and Dorue language, also known as Gbee or Gbi and Dorue, is similar to the Krahn dialect/ language of the Niger–Congo language family. It is spoken in northern Liberia which is a district within Nimba County. Its dialects include Gbi and Dorue. It has a lexical similarity of 0.78 with the Bassa language, and so might be considered a Bassa dialect.
In 1991, Gbi was spoken by 18,600 people.
References
Gbii language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA