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The Jabo language is a Kru language spoken by the Jabo people of Liberia. They have also been known in the past as the Gweabo. ==Classification== Jabo is part of the Grebo language continuum, encoded by ''Ethnologue'' more specifically as a dialect of the Southern Grebo language.〔In a working-group draft of ISO-639-3 written in 2001 (URL accessed 2006-4-24 ()), the code GRJ was assigned to the "Jabo language", while the code GEU was applied to the coordinate taxon "Glebo".〕 However, Jabo satisfies the ISO 639-3 criteria for an individual language:〔ISO 639-3 "Scope of denotation for language identifiers"().〕 *The shared core-vocabulary score for Jabo and Seaside Grebo is reported as being as low as 75%.〔Ingemann & Duitsmann, 1976. Quoted in Hasselbring & Johnson, 2002, p. 14. This last source made its own determination of 85%, (p. 45) but acknowledged methodologically dubious techniques—such as coaching for cognates in multilingual groups. This number is probably the main basis of the current proposed ISO 639-3 classification. The mutual intelligibility scores reported are difficult to interpret, since even Jabo-Jabo scores considerably less than 100%〕 *The Jabo and Grebo political territories have been distinct at least since the time of the founding of "Maryland in Africa."〔"Map of Liberia / compiled from data on file in the office of the American Colonization Society, under the direction of the Revd. W. McLain, secy., by R. Coyle." 1845. Library of Congress, URL accessed on 2006-04-24 at ().〕 The two peoples are currently in different counties (Grand Kru County and Maryland County), and the Jabo claim a greater affinity for the Kru (Krao) than for the Grebo.〔Ethnologue.〕 *The physical separation of the Jabo and Grebo areas by the Deeah (Decoris) river is also an effective barrier to social intercourse and commerce. *The Jabo and the Grebo have different origin legends, and thus have no shared identity.〔Jabo origins as related by Blooah to a WPA interviewer. See Bibliography.〕〔Grebo origins as related by 19th century Reverend John Payne, quoted in Hasselbring & Johnson, p. 8.〕 *The Jabo are highly ethnocentric, and consider themselves to be a nation with its own language.〔 On the other hand, the commercial interaction of the Grebo peoples, together with exogamy, produces widespread multilingualism, magnifying the impression of homogeneity of the varieties of Grebo. Additionally, the goal of literacy is facilitated by a unificationalist approach to the varieties. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jabo language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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