Dagaare language

Dagaare
Spoken in Ghana, Burkina Faso
Ethnicity Dagaaba people
Native speakers ca. 1 million  (2001–2003)
Language family
Niger–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 variously:
dga – Southern Dagaare
dgd – Dagaari Dioula
dgi – Northern Dagara
Majority 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:

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