Dyula language

Dyula language
Not to be confused with Diola language.
Dioula
Julakan
Spoken in Burkina Faso Burkina Faso
Côte d'Ivoire Côte d'Ivoire
Mali Mali
Region central southern Mali and abroad
Ethnicity Dyula people
Native speakers 2,700,000 (several millions more including second language speakers)  (no date)
Language family
Niger–Congo ?
  • Mande
    • Western Mande
      • ...
        • Manding
          • East Manding
            • Bambara–Dyula
              • Dioula
Language codes
ISO 639-2 dyu
ISO 639-3 dyu

Jula (Dyula, Dioula) is a Mande language spoken in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire and Mali. It is one of the Manding languages, and is most closely related to Bambara, being mutually intelligible with Bambara as well as Malinke. It is a trade language in West Africa and is spoken by millions of people, either as a first or second language. It is written in the Arabic script and the Latin script, as well as in the indigenous N'Ko alphabet.

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