Dogon

Dialect continuum of southeastern Mali

Languagedialect continuum languageQ1234776

Also known as Kaado · Dogon languages · Kado

Subclass of: Atlantic–Congo
, Benue–Congo
Indigenous to: Mopti Region

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The Dogon languages are a small closely related language family that is spoken by the Dogon people of Mali and may belong to the proposed Niger–Congo family. There are about 600,000 speakers of its dozen languages. They are tonal languages, and most have two tones, but some, like Donno So, have three. Their basic word order is subject–object–verb.

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Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb
Country: Mali

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