Dagaare language

Dagaare
Native to Ghana, Burkina Faso
Ethnicity Dagaaba people
Native speakers
1.1 million  (2001–2003)[1]
Niger–Congo
Latin (Dagaare alphabet)
Dagaare Braille
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
dga â€“ Southern Dagaare
dgd â€“ Dagaari Dioula
dgi â€“ Northern Dagara
Glottolog sout2789  (Southern Dagaare)[2]
daga1272  (Dagaari Dioula)[3]
nort2780  (Northern Dagara)[4]

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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:

References

  1. ↑ Southern Dagaare at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Dagaari Dioula at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Northern Dagara at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Southern Dagaare". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Dagaari Dioula". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  4. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Northern Dagara". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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