Animere language

Animere (wagere mine naŋ e Anyimere bee Kunda, kyɛ ta wagere mine a da leɛ e toponym) eɛ kɔkɔre naŋ be a Ghana, a Kecheibe ane Kunda eɛ koraa naŋ be  Benimbere noba. O peɛlɛɛ a Kebu bee Akebu ko a Togo. A Ghana Togo Mountain languages (GTM), naŋ taa lambo neŋ Ka-Togo kpaaroŋ ko a Heine (1968). Aŋa a GTM kɔkɔre, Animere eɛ a yuori kɔkɔre.

Animere eɛ kɔkɔre beɛo kaŋa naŋ na ba maŋ taa yeluu korɔ biiri; a yeluu sɔrebo eɛ 30 (Blench 2006).Blench (2006) notes that all 30 speakers are over 35 years old. A 2003 Ethnologue estimate of 700 probably counts all ethnic Benimbere.  Bodomo 1996:38 states that  "Animere (...) is said to be dying out (only 250 speakers now)". Bodomo's figure probably derives from an older edition of the Ethnologue also cited by Sommer 1992. Naŋ be a 1965 Adele, ka a kaŋa naŋ e GTM kɔkɔre, la a kɔkɔkpoŋ naŋ taa a bibiiri yeluu a Animere area, kyɛ nembɛrɛ yoŋ la maŋ yele a Animere bamenne zie, naŋ vɛŋ a Heine (1968) ka o teɛrɛ ka 'a kɔkɔre naŋ eɛ extinct yuomo mine wagere'.Heine (1968) says that only members of Nkwantá and Kontrô clans of the Benimbere speak (some) Animere; cf. Sommer 1992:308 Teɛroŋ naŋ be a Twi, a dominant regional language, naŋ taa yɛroŋ ko a Benimbere.

 Footnotes 

 Sommo Yizie 

 Bodomo, Adams B. (1996) 'On Language And Development In Africa: The Case of Ghana', Nordic Journal of African Studies, 5, 2, 31–51.
 Heine, Bernd (1968) Die Verbreitung und Gliedering der Togorestsprachen (Kölner Beiträge zur Afrikanistik vol. 1). Köln: Druckerei Wienand.
 Seidel, A., (1898) "Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Sprachen in Togo." Aufgrund der von Dr. Rudolf Plehn und anderen gesammelten Materialien bearbeitet. Zeitschrift für Afrikanischer und Oceanischer Sprachen.
 Sommer, Gabriele (1992) 'A survey on language death in Africa', in Brenzinger, Matthias (ed.) Language Death: Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 301–417.

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 Animere profile on UNESCO-CI
 ELAR archive of Documentation of Animere, Ghana (Kwa, Niger-Congo): A Pilot Study