Mpre language
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Mpre is a language spoken or once spoken in the village of Butie () in Ghana, near the confluence of the Black and White Voltas. It is known only from a 70-word list given in a 1931 article. It bears no close resemblance to its neighbours; it may be a Niger-Congo language, or a language isolate.
Painter (1967) briefly states that "ḿpŕ̩ɛ̀ has died" and that the ethnic group ("the Nnyamase-mprɛ") have "become Nnyamase-Gonja"; he appears to regard it as having been a dialect of Gonja.
Bibliography
- Cardinall, A.W. 1931. "A survival". Gold Coast Review, V,1:193-197.
- Painter, Colin. 1967. "The Distribution of Guang in Ghana, and a Statistical Pre-Testing on Twenty-Five Idiolects," The Journal of West African Languages, Vol. 4, No. 1, Cambridge University Press, Ibadan, pp. 25-78.
External link
- Blench, Roger (1999) [Recent Field Work in Ghana: Report on Dompo and a note on Mpre].
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