Dagaare language

Dagaare
Spoken in	Ghana, Burkina Faso
Ethnicity	Dagaaba people
Native speakers	>1 million
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Gur Northern Oti–Volta Moré–Dagbani Moré Dagaare
Language codes
ISO 639-3	variously: dga – Southern Dagaare dgd – Dagaari Dioula dgi – 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 Dagaare language (dga), which is spoken mainly in Ghana
• Northern Dagara language (dgi), which is spoken mainly in Burkina Faso
• Dagaari Dioula (dgd), which is spoken mainly in Burkina Faso, and has significant influence from the genetically unrelated Dioula language

References

• Bodomo, Adams, "The Dagaare language and its speakers: Introduction"
• Ethnologue Language family tree, Dagaari

External links

• Map of Dagaare language from the LL-Map Project
• Information on Dagaare language from the MultiTree Project
• PanAfriL10n page on Dagaare
• Bibliography of Dagaare Studies
• Journal of Dagaare Studies