- Dagaare language
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Dagaare Spoken in Ghana, Burkina Faso Ethnicity Dagaaba people Native speakers >1 million Language family Language codes ISO 639-3 variously:
dga – Southern Dagaare
dgd – Dagaari Dioula
dgi – Northern DagaraMajority areas of Northern Dagara speakers, in red, on a map of Burkina Faso.Dagaare is the maternal language of the Dagaaba people in Ghana and Burkina Faso. It has been described as a dialect continuum that also includes Waale and Birifor.
Ethnologue divides Dagaare into three languages:
- Southern Dagaare language (dga), which is spoken mainly in Ghana
- Northern Dagara language (dgi), which is spoken mainly in Burkina Faso
- Dagaari Dioula (dgd), which is spoken mainly in Burkina Faso, and has significant influence from the genetically unrelated Dioula language
References
- Bodomo, Adams, "The Dagaare language and its speakers: Introduction"
- Ethnologue Language family tree, Dagaari
External links
- Map of Dagaare language from the LL-Map Project
- Information on Dagaare language from the MultiTree Project
- PanAfriL10n page on Dagaare
- Bibliography of Dagaare Studies
- Journal of Dagaare Studies
Categories:- Gur languages
- Languages of Ghana
- Languages of Burkina Faso
- Burkina Faso stubs
- Ghana stubs
- Niger-Congo language stubs
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