Abidji language

Abidji
Abiji
Native toIvory Coast
RegionLagunes District
EthnicityAbidji
Native speakers
85,000 (2017)[1]
Dialects
  • Enyembe
  • Ogbru
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3abi
Glottologabid1235

Abidji (also known as Abiji and Ambidji) is a language of uncertain classification within the Kwa branch of the Niger–Congo family. It is spoken in the Ivory Coast.[2]

It has two dialects: "enyembe" and "ogbru". These dialects' names are used by the members of these Abidji-speaking ethnic groups to refer to themselves. The name Ambidji was given to the language by these groups' neighbors.[3]

  1. ^ Abidji at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Tresbarats, Chantal (April 1990). "Tone in Abidji morphology". Studies in African Linguistics. 21 (1): 107–143. doi:10.32473/sal.v21i1.107440.
  3. ^ Vick, Renée (1990), Le système aspecto-modal de l'abidji (in French), Abidjan: Institut de linguistique appliquée