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Bilingualism levels

dusseaux.antoine_289191, Mon, 2022-12-26 13:23
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ISO 639-3: 
nfr

E15 used a scale to define the various bilingualism levels using the ILR scale: https://www.ethnologue.com/15/show_language/nfr/

E25 only says "Also use Akan [aka]"

Does it mean that today all Nafaanra speakers speak [aka] fluently? (level 5? 4? 3?)

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Chuck Fennig, Wed, 2023-01-11 13:26

Antoine,

The phrase "Also use Akan [aka]" means that an undetermined number of Nafaanra speakers are bilingual in Akan. We aim to add the quantifier wherever we know how many of the speakers are bilingual in the other language (all, most, many, some, few). In this case, we do not know how many Nafaanra speaker use Akan. This also means that the Nafaanra who use Akan can, at the minimum, carry on a conversation in the language; we do not record levels of fluency.

Best wishes,

Chuck Fennig
Managing Editor, Ethnologue

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