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Glio Ubi language

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Native to
  
Liberia, Ivory Coast

ISO 639-3
  
oub

Native speakers
  
(6,000 cited 1991)

Glottolog
  
glio1241

Language family
  
Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Kru Western Grebo Glio-Ubi

The Glio-Oubi language (Glio-Ubi) is a Kru language of the Niger–Congo language family. It is spoken in northeast Liberia, where it is known as Glio, and in western Ivory Coast, where it is known as Oubi or Ubi. It has a lexical similarity of 0.75 with the Glaro-Twabo language.

In 1991, Glio-Oubi was spoken by 3,500 people in Liberia and 2,500 in Ivory Coast.

References

Glio-Ubi language Wikipedia