Animere (sometimes Anyimere or Kunda, the latter being a toponym) is a language spoken in Ghana, in the Kecheibe and Kunda villages of the Benimbere people. It is most closely related to Kebu or Akebu of Togo. Both are Ghana Togo Mountain languages, classified as members of the Ka-Togo group by Heine (1968). Like most other GTM languages, Animere is a noun class language. Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families. ... Map showing the distribution of Niger-Congo languages The Niger-Congo languages constitute one of the worlds major language families, and Africas largest in terms of geographical area, number of speakers, and number of distinct languages. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... In the classification of African languages, Volta-Congo is the major branch (in terms of number of languages) of the Niger-Congo phylum. ... The Kwa languages are spoken in the south-eastern part of Côte dIvoire, in Ghana, Togo and Benin, and the south-Western corner of Nigeria. ... The Ghana Togo Mountain languages, formerly called Togorestsprachen (Togo Remnant languages) and Central Togo languages, form a group of about foureen languages spoken in the mountains of the Ghana-Togo borderland. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2:1998 Codes for the representation of names of languages — Part 2: Alpha-3 code Twenty-two of the languages have two three-letter codes: a code for bibliographic use (ISO 639-2/B) a code for terminological use (ISO 639-2/T). ... ISO 639-3 is in process of development as an international standard for language codes. ... For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words see here. ... Phonetics (from the Greek word φωνή, phone meaning sound, voice) is the study of sounds and the human voice. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... This is a concise version of the International Phonetic Alphabet for English sounds. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The Ghana Togo Mountain languages, formerly called Togorestsprachen (Togo Remnant languages) and Central Togo languages, form a group of about foureen languages spoken in the mountains of the Ghana-Togo borderland. ...

Animere is an endangered language which is no longer being passed on to children; speaker counts range from 30 (Blench, 2006) to 700 (Ethnologue, 2003).^[2] Already in 1965 Adele, another GTM language, was the dominant language among the younger generation in the Animere area, and only elderly people spoke Animere among themselves, leading Heine (1968) to expect that 'the language is going to be extinct in a few decades'.^[3] Knowledge of Twi, a dominant regional language, is also widespread among the Benimbere. The Adele language is spoken in eastern Ghana and als well in Togo. ... Twi (pronounced chwee) is a language spoken in Ghana by about 6 million people. ...

References

• 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.

External links

• Animere profile on UNESCO-CI
• Ethnologue report for Animere