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Ega

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2002

Bruce Connell ,
Firmin Ahoua  and
Dafydd Gibbon
Bruce Connell
Affiliation:
York University, Toronto & SOAS, London [email protected]
Firmin Ahoua
Affiliation:
Université de Cocody, Abidjan
Dafydd Gibbon
Affiliation:
Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld
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Abstract

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Ega is an endangered language spoken in the south-central region of Côte d'Ivoire, in Divo Department. The precise number of speakers is not known at present; the 14th Ethnologue (Grimes 2000) reports 291 to 3,000, and notes that ‘the ethnic group is growing, but they are shifting to the Dida language because of intermarriage and other influences’. Our own preliminary and impressionistic work suggests the number of Ega speakers to be closer to the upper end of this range, perhaps around 2,000, but we note that Ega now serves a decreasing number of sociolinguistic functions, to the extent that in at least some villages Dida has replaced Ega as the primary language of daily use. It is also clear that the degree of intergenerational transmission is low in many, if not all, Ega villages.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , June 2002 , pp. 99 - 104
Copyright
© 2002 International Phonetic Association
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