Dioula language

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Dioula
Julakan
Spoken in: Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire 
Region: central southern Mali and abroad
Total speakers: 2,700,000 (several millions more including second language speakers)
Language family: Niger-Congo
 Mande
  West Mande
   Manding
    Dioula
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: dyu

Dioula (Jula, Dyula) is a language spoken in Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire. It is related to Bambara language in a manner similar to the relation between American English and British English. It is probably the most used language for trade in West Africa.[citation needed]

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