| Dioula | |
|---|---|
| Julakan | |
| Spoken in | Burkina Faso Côte d'Ivoire Mali |
| Region | central southern Mali and abroad |
| Ethnicity | Dyula people |
| Native speakers | 2.7 million ca. 1.2 million (1991) |
| Language family | |
| 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.