Samo language (Burkina)

Not to be confused with Samogo languages or Samo language (New Guinea).
Samo
Spoken in Burkina Faso
Native speakers 230,000  (1995–1998)
Language family
Niger–Congo ?
  • Mande
    • Eastern Mande
      • Bissa–Busa
        • Samo–Busa
          • Samo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 variously:
stj – Matya Samo
sym – Maya Samo
sbd – Southern Samo
Majority areas of Samo speakers, in grey, on a map of Burkina Faso

Samo is a dialect cluster of Mande languages spoken in Burkina Faso. Intelligibility between varieties is low. The following have been coded as separate languages in Ethnologue:

Notes

  1. ^ The Seenku aka Sembla language is also called 'Southern Samo'.