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.