Ebrié language

Spoken in

Niger - Congo

• Atlantic - Congo Kwa Potou - Tano Potou

Ebr

The Tschaman (ISO 639-3: ebr ), also Ebrie called, is a Kwa language of the Niger - Congo language family of languages ​​and is spoken in the Ivory Coast of a total of 75,900 persons ( Census 1988) in 57 villages in the department of Abidjan.

The language Tschaman is not related to any of its neighboring languages ​​in the area. Along with the language Mbato [ gwa ] is the Tschaman the subgroup Potou within the language group of the Potou - Tano languages.

Although there is a work based on the Latin alphabet writing system, use the Tschaman spokesman in recent times increasingly French as a written language.