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ALSO KNOWN AS		Anyimere, Kunda
CLASSIFICATION		Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Kwa
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		anf
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Information from: “Ghana-Togo Mountain Languages Locations” . Roger Blench

Severely endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
30
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"All speakers are over 35 years old."

DATE OF INFO: 2006

TRANSMISSION

PLACES: Ghana

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Volta Region, villages of Kecheibi and Kunda

Endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
700
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"Reported as not being passed on to children."

DATE OF INFO: 2003

TRANSMISSION
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

PLACES: Ghana;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "East central, Kecheibi and Kunda villages, remote."

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
700
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
700
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
A few
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
500
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"There are only a few fluent speakers left of this so-called Togo-Remnant (Niger-Congo) language, all of whom are over forty."

MORE ON VITALITY

"The language is used in only a limited set of functional domains."

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

"The Kwa language Twi (Akan), spoken by many Anyimere as a second language, appears to be becoming increasingly important as a first language for the Anyimere."

PLACES: Ghana

Severely endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~250
Native speakers worldwide

TRANSMISSION
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

PLACES: Ghana

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "Kecheibi and Kunda villages"

				Ghana-Togo Mountain Languages Locations				Web page				http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Niger-Congo/GTML%%20Website/GTMLanguagetables/GTMLlocations.htm	Roger Blench	Roger Blench. "Ghana-Togo Mountain Languages Locations." Online: http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Niger-Congo/GTML%%20Website/GTMLanguagetables/GTMLlocations.htm.			30	2006	10-99	"All speakers are over 35 years old."				Severely Endangered (60 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	13		Ghana	Volta Region, villages of Kecheibi and Kunda
		16	2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)			M. Paul Lewis		SIL International	Dallas, TX		http://www.ethnologue.com/		Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub		700	2003	100-999	"Reported as not being passed on to children."	Akan			Endangered (60 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	13		Ghana;	"East central, Kecheibi and Kunda villages, remote."
		3rd	2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger					UNESCO Publishing	Paris		http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub		700		100-999					Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)					7.6129,.4064
				World Oral Literature Project								http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.			700		100-999					Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
	Contributions to the sociology of language, #64		1992	A survey on language death in Africa	Language death: factual and theoretical explorations with special reference to East Africa	402	Brenzinger, Matthias		Mouton de Gruyter	Berlin & New York			Sommer, Gabriele	Gabriele Sommer. 1992. "A Survey On Language Death in Africa." In Language death: factual and theoretical explorations with special reference to East Africa, edited by Matthias Brenzinger. 402. Mouton de Gruyter.	EBALL		~250		100-999		Adele; Twi			Severely Endangered (60 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	14		Ghana	"Kecheibi and Kunda villages"
9780700711970			2007	Africa	Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages		Christopher Moseley		Routledge		7		Gerrit J. Dimmendaal and F. K. Erhard Voeltz	Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. and F. K. Erhard Voeltz. 2007. "Africa." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by Christopher Moseley. Routledge.		500	A few		100-999	"There are only a few fluent speakers left of this so-called Togo-Remnant (Niger-Congo) language, all of whom are over forty."	Twi	"The Kwa language Twi (Akan), spoken by many Anyimere as a second language, appears to be becoming increasingly important as a first language for the Anyimere."	Many	Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)		"The language is used in only a limited set of functional domains."	Ghana

Animere

Language metadata

Language information by source

Severely endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available

30

Endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available

700

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

700

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

700

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

A few

Severely endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available

~250

Discussion

Animere

Language metadata

Language information by source

Severely endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available

30

Endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available

700

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

700

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

700

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

A few

Severely endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available

~250

Discussion

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