Bissa language

Bissa
Region Burkina, Ghana
Ethnicity Bissa people
Native speakers
 590,000  (1999–2003)[1]
Niger–Congo

  • Mande

    • Eastern
      • Bisa–Busa
        • Bissa
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bib
Glottolog biss1248[2]

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Majority areas of northern dialects of Bissa, in dark blue, on a map of Burkina Faso.

Bissa (Bisa) is a Mande language spoken by the Bissa people of Burkina Faso, Ghana, and (marginally) Togo. Dialects are Barka, Lebir, Lere.

Comparison of Barka,Lere and Zeba

PhraseLereBarkaZeba
Good morningDomireh kiIdomleki
comeburiahhEyaham
waterpihi
foodforbilehobile

Phrases (Lere)

References

  1. ↑ Bissa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bissa". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.