Western Plains Dogon
| Western Plains Dogon | |
|---|---|
| Kan Dogon | |
| Region | Mali, Burkina Faso |
Native speakers | 260,000 (1998)[1] |
|
Niger–Congo
| |
| Dialects |
Tomo Kan
Tengu Kan
Togo Kan
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
Either: dtm – Tomo Kan dtk – Tene Kan |
| Glottolog |
west2508[2] |
The Dogon dialects of the western plains below the Bandiagara Escarpment is Mali are mutually intelligible. They are sometimes called the Kan Dogon because they use the word kan (also spelled kã) for varieties of speech. The dialects are:
- Tomo kã
- Teŋu kã
- Togo kã
The latter two are traditionally subsumed under the name Tene kã (Tene Kan, Tene Tingi), but Hochstetler separates them because the three varieties are about equidistant.
There are a quarter million speakers of these dialects, about evenly split between Tomo Kan and Tene Kan, making this the most populous of the Dogon languages. There are a few Tomo-speaking villages just across the border in Burkina Faso.
References
- ↑ Tomo Kan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Tene Kan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Western Plains Dogon". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- Blench, Roger; Mallam Dendo (2005). "A survey of Dogon languages in Mali: Overview". OGMIOS: Newsletter of Foundation for Endangered Languages 3.02 (26): 14–15. Retrieved 2011-06-30..
- Hochstetler, J. Lee; Durieux, J.A.; E.I.K. Durieux-Boon (2004). Sociolinguistic Survey of the Dogon Language Area (PDF). SIL International. Retrieved 2011-06-30.