Vai language

Vai
Vai
ꕙꔤ
Native to	Liberia, Sierra Leone
Region	Africa
Ethnicity	Vai people
Native speakers	(120,000 cited 1991–2006)
Language family	Mande Western Mande Central Manding–Jogo Manding–Vai Vai–Kono Vai; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Vai syllabary
Language codes
ISO 639-2	vai
ISO 639-3	vai
Glottolog	vaii1241
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Two Vai speakers, recorded in Liberia.

The Vai language, also called Vy or Gallinas, is a Mande language spoken by the Vai people, roughly 104,000 in Liberia, and by smaller populations, some 15,500, in Sierra Leone.^[2]

^ Vai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Ethnologue report for Vai

[e18-1] Vai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[Ethnologue-2] Ethnologue report for Vai

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Vai language

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