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2004. - 17 p. The Ega language is spoken in western Côte d’Ivoire, as an enclave language among Kru speakers. It has been investigated by Rémy Bole-Richard (1983, ms.) and more recently by a project led by Dafydd Gibbon (). Ega has been considered a threatened language, although it now seems likely that there are more speakers than previously thought. Bole-Richard & Lafage (1983) argue that Ega is a Kwa language on the basis of lexicostatistics and they include it in a set with other Kwa languages in Côte d’Ivoire. Although the maximum lexicostatistic percentage with any individual language is only 13%, they give Ega 35% with the group as a whole. Ega frequently shares a common root with only one other Kwa language. The text notes that Ega is in other ways exceptional. It has a very complete set of alternating V-prefixes on nominal stems, more closely resembling Bantoid languages than its immediate neighbours, as well as a complete set of fortis/lenis oppositions in voiced consonants. The nominal prefixes do suggest that Ega is a Niger-Congo or even an East Volta-Congo language, but the evidence is less than compelling that it is closely related to the Kwa languages. In this analy

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Blench Roger.

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AF

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nonfiction

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Language Learning, Language