Dyula language
Not to be confused with Diola language.
| Dioula | |
|---|---|
| Julakan | |
| Native to | Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali |
| Region | central southern Mali and abroad |
| Ethnicity | Dyula people |
Native speakers |
unknown (2.5 million cited 1985–2012)[1] 10–15 million L2 speakers (2012) |
| N'Ko, Latin, Arabic | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 |
dyu |
| ISO 639-3 |
dyu |
| Glottolog |
dyul1238[2] |
Jula (Dyula, Dioula) is a Mande language spoken in Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, 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.
A movie spoken in Dyula is Fanta Régina Nacro's Night of Truth.
External links
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Dyula language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator |
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