Western Plains Dogon

Western Plains Dogon
Kan Dogon
Region Mali, Burkina Faso
Native speakers
260,000 (1998)[1]
Niger–Congo
  • Dogon

    • Plains
      • Western Plains Dogon
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 ) for varieties of speech. The dialects are:

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

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


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