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Preferred term

kpeKpelle  

Type

  • language

Definition

  • The Kpelle language is spoken by the Kpelle people and is part of the Mande family of languages. Guinean Kpelle (known as Guerze in French), spoken by half a million people, concentrated primarily, but not exclusively, in the forest regions of Guinea, whose capital, Nzérékoré, is the third largest city in Guinea and the largest city in the Guinée Forestière region of south-eastern Guinea bordering Liberia, Ivory Coast, and Sierra Leone. Liberian Kpelle, spoken by half again as many, is currently taught in schools in Liberia.

Entry terms

  • Kpelle language

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • kpe

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • kpe

ISO 639-3 code

  • kpe

In other languages

  • الكبيل

    Arabic

  • kpelle dili

    Azerbaijani

  • ক্‌পেল্লে

    Bangla

  • क्पेले

    Bodo

  • kpele

    Bosnian

  • kpelle

    Breton

  • кпеле

    Bulgarian

  • kpelle

    Catalan

  • kpelle

    Croatian

  • kpelle

    Czech

  • kpelle

    Danish

  • Kpelle

    Dutch

  • kpelle

    Estonian

  • Finnish

  • kpellé

    French

  • Kpèllé
  • Kpelle

    German

  • Kpelle-Sprache
  • Κπέλε

    Greek

  • ક્પેલ્લે

    Gujarati

  • קפלה

    Hebrew

  • क्पेल्लै

    Hindi

  • kpelle

    Hungarian

  • kpelle

    Icelandic

  • Kpelle

    Indonesian

  • kpelle

    Italian

  • クペレ語

    Japanese

  • ಕಪೆಲ್ಲೆ

    Kannada

  • کَپیلی

    Kashmiri

  • 크펠레어

    Korean

  • ກາແປຣ

    Lao

  • kpellu

    Latvian

  • kpele

    Lithuanian

  • кпеле

    Macedonian

  • കപെല്ലേ

    Malayalam

  • Kpelle

    Maltese

  • क्पेल्ले

    Marathi

  • kpelle

    Norwegian Bokmål

  • kpelle

    Norwegian Nynorsk

  • କୈପେଲେ

    Odia

  • کپله‌ای

    Persian

  • Lenga Kpelle, Liberia

    Piedmontese

  • kpelle

    Polish

  • Język kpelle
  • kpelle

    Portuguese

  • Língua kpelle
  • kpelle

    Romanian

  • kpelle

    Romansh

  • кпелле

    Russian

  • Кпеле

    Serbian

  • kpelle

    Slovak

  • kpelejščina

    Slovenian

  • kpelle

    Spanish

  • Swedish

  • Kpelle-Schpraach

    Swiss German

  • க்பெல்லே

    Tamil

  • పెల్లే

    Telugu

  • กาแปล

    Thai

  • Kpelle

    Turkish

  • кпеллє

    Ukrainian

  • Tiếng Kpelle

    Vietnamese

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/kpe

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