Languages of Ivory Coast
| Languages of the Ivory Coast | |
|---|---|
French | |
| National | About 69
languages: Mooré |
| Vernacular | African French |
| Foreign | List
|
Francophone African Sign Language | |
| Keyboard layout | |
multilingual
country with an estimated 69
languages currently spoken.Dioula
.
Ivory Coast is a
Francophone country, and in 2024, French is spoken by 10 million people out of 28.9 million (33.61%).[3]
The seventy or so indigenous languages fall into five main branches of the
.There are also three million or so speakers of immigrant languages, mostly from neighboring countries and above all from Burkina Faso. Ethnic tensions in the north between immigrant and native Ivoirians, as well as between the Mande/Senoufo north and the Kru/Kwa south, were a large factor in the Ivorian civil wars.
Education for the deaf in Ivory Coast uses American Sign Language, introduced by the deaf American missionary Andrew Foster.
References
- ISBN 978-3-96110-205-1.
- ^ Lewis, M. Paul (ed.), 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. (Page on "Languages of Côte d’Ivoire." This page indicates that one of the 79 no longer has any speakers.)
- ^ "Accueil-Francoscope".
Sources
- Ethnologue list and map for Ivory Coast
- PanAfrican L10n page on Ivory Coast
- (in French) Linguistic situation in Ivory Coast