Dagaare

Language of the Dagaara people in Ghana and Burkina Faso

Languagenatural language modern languageQ35159

Also known as Dagaare language · Southern Dagaare · Dagara · Kɔmpare Dagaare, Luor Dagaare, Sapare Dagaare Soga, Dagaare.

Speakers: 1,100,000
3
Sources
1.ethnologue.com/18/language/dga/
2.ethnologue.com/18/language/dgd/
3.ethnologue.com/18/language/dgi/
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Subclass of: Oti–Volta
Script: Latin script
, Dagaare Braille

Overview

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Dagaare is the language of the Dagaaba people of Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Ivory Coast. It has been described as a dialect continuum that also includes Waale and Birifor. Dagaare language varies in dialect stemming from other family languages including: Dagbane, Waale, Mabia, Gurene, Mampruli, Kusaal, Buli, Niger-Congo, and many other sub languages resulting in around 1.3 million Dagaare speakers. Throughout the regions of native Dagaare speakers the dialect comes from Northern, Central, Western, and Southern areas referring to the language differently. Burkina Faso refers to Dagaare as Dagara and Birifor to natives in the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire. The native tongue is still universally known as Dagaare. Amongst the different dialects, the standard for Dagaare is derived from the Central region's dialect. Southern Dagaare also stems from the Dagaare language and is known to be commonly spoken in Wa and Kaleo.

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Works in this language

2 linked to Dagaare in Wikidata

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28 statements · 39% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Linguistic typology: subject–verb–object
Country: Burkina Faso
Ghana
1
Sources
1.“ScriptSource - Ghana”scriptsource.org/country/GHRetrieved 2023-08-21
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Ethnologue language status: 4 Educational
1
Sources
1.Stated in Ethnologueethnologue.com/language/dgaRetrieved 2019-05-10
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Wikimedia language code: dga

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14 identifiers linking Dagaare across the web's reference databases

10.5000, -2.0000OpenStreetMap ↗

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