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Survey of Kru Dialects by Duitsman John, Bertkau Jana, Laesch James. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Studies in African Linguistics. Volume 6, 1975. - 29 p. In April and May of 1974 a linguistic survey of what has been called the Kru language was undertaken as a joint project by the Liberian Ministry of Education and The Institute for Liberian Languages. Our purposes were several: 1) to determine the number of Kru dialects and their locations, 2) to determine the nature of their interrelationships, and 3) to gain an understanding of the relationships between Kru and the languages adjacent to it. Kru is an English term applied to a complex of clans and dialects which themselves linguistically into two major subunits: Klae and Tajuos 3. Although there may well be social and political reasons for grouping Klae with Tajuos3, there is little linguistic justification for less so, in fact, than for grouping Tajuos3 with Cedepe, a dialect of "Interior Grebo." (These relationships are discussed in detail in section 6,) Klae and Tajuos3 are actually the names used by Klae and TaJuos5 speakers to refer to these two sUbunits. For strictly linp,uistic purposes, we suggest that these terms be used in favor of the more general term Kru.

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Author

Duitsman John, Bertkau Jana, Laesch James.

Language

AF

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Language Learning, Language