The Tajuasohn language, also known as Tajuason, Tajuoso, and Tajuosohn, is a Kru language of the Niger–Congo

language family A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The term ''family'' is a metaphor borrowed from biology, with the tree model used in historical linguistics ...

. It is spoken primarily in

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in eastern

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by members of five local

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s. In 1991, Tajuasohn was spoken by 9,600 people.

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