Dagaare language

Dagaare
Dagaare
Native to	Ghana, Burkina Faso
Ethnicity	Dagaaba people
Native speakers	1.1 million (2001–2003)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Gur Northern Oti–Volta Moré–Dagbani Moré Dagaare; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin (Dagaare alphabet); Dagaare Braille
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously:; dga – Southern Dagaare; dgd – Dagaari Dioula; dgi – Northern Dagara
Glottolog	sout2789 Central Dagaare; daga1272 Dagaari Dioula; nort2780 Northern Dagara
	Majority areas of Northern Dagara speakers, in red, on a map of Burkina Faso.

Dagaare is the maternal language of the Dagaaba people in Ghana and Burkina Faso. It has been described as a dialect continuum that also includes Waale and Birifor.

Ethnologue divides Dagaare into three languages:

Southern/Central Dagaare language, which is spoken mainly in Ghana
Northern Dagara language, which is spoken mainly in Burkina Faso
Dagaari Dioula, which is spoken mainly in Burkina Faso, and has significant influence from the genetically unrelated Dioula language

Phonology[]

The consonant and vowel sounds in the Dagaare languages:^[2]

Allophones of /d, ɡ/ include [r, ɣ].^[3]

^ Southern Dagaare at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Dagaari Dioula at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Northern Dagara at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
^ Ali M, Grimm S, Ali M (2021). A dictionary and grammatical sketch of Dagaare (pdf). Berlin: Language Science Press. doi:10.5281/zenodo.5154710. ISBN 978-3-98554-002-0.
^ Bodomo, Adams (1997). The Structure of Dagaare. Stanford University.

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