Languages of Burkina Faso

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Languages of Burkina Faso

Postby vijayjohn » 2021-11-13, 18:08

A wide variety of languages is spoken in Burkina Faso. They include a variety of Fula, Kidal Tamasheq, Songhai, two Dogon languages, Hausa, a possible language isolate called Siamou that is traditionally classified as a Kru language, several Mande languages, and many languages in a family at least sometimes known as "Gur" but also perhaps known as "Mabia." Even under the simplistic assumption that these languages can all be lumped together as "Afroasiatic," "Nilo-Saharan," and "Niger-Congo," members of half the language families in all of Africa are represented in this one small country.

The very name of Burkina Faso comes from two of these languages. "Burkina" comes from Mòoré (Mossi), a Gur/Mabia language and one of the two official regional languages of Burkina Faso. "Faso" comes from Dyula, a Mande language and the other official regional language.

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Re: Languages of Burkina Faso

Postby vijayjohn » 2022-04-15, 20:17

There is a Kauderwelsch book for Mòoré, and some of the videos on the An ka taa YouTube channel are from Burkina Faso; virtually all of them are in either Dyula or a Manding language variety that is mutually intelligible with it. See also the Mandinka/Malinke thread.


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