Krio

8.6M people can hold a conversation in Krio across 2 countries; official in 0.

Data as of 28 Oct 2026 · ISO 639-3 kri · Glottolog krio1253 · Indo-European · CLDR 49, Glottolog 5.3, States sheet

Where Krio is spoken

Share of each country's people who can hold a conversation in it.

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Countries

Share of the population and people who can hold a conversation in it, by country.

How this is measured
Most figures are CLDR's estimates of speakers. CLDR lists only each country's larger languages, so where it has no figure a national census or official survey fills in, and the Figure column says which and what it counts. A home-language figure is a floor: more people can speak the language than use it at home.
1
95%
8.6M
2
none · Census, mother tongue
0.0%
0

States where it is the first language

States whose first language is this one, largest population first.

1
772K
3
Western Area Rural
662K
4
621K
5
Western Area Urban
609K
6
Tonkolili
557K
7
Kailahun
550K
8
Port Loko
528K
9
430K
10
387K
11
368K
12
347K

Family

Where it sits in the Glottolog tree, root to language.

  1. Indo-European
  2. Classical Indo-European
  3. Germanic
  4. Northwest Germanic
  5. West Germanic
  6. North Sea Germanic
  7. Anglo-Frisian
  8. Anglic
  9. Later Anglic
  10. Middle-Modern English
  11. Macro-English
  12. Guinea Coast Creole English
  13. West African Creole English
  14. Krio

Indo-European: 216 languages, 5.95B speakers.

Where these numbers come from

Definitions are on the Method page.