Dogoso language

Not to be confused with Dogose language.
Dogoso
Black Dogose
Region Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast
Native speakers
9,000 (1999)[1]
Niger–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 dgs
Glottolog dogo1294[2]

Dogoso, or Black Dogose (Doghosie-Fing), is a Gur language of Burkina Faso. Other than Khe, with which it is 50–60% lexically similar, is distant from other languages, including the neighboring Dogosé language.

Names include Bambadion-Dogoso ~ Bambadion-Dokhosié and variations on 'Black Dogose': Dorhosié-Finng, Dorossié-Fing, Dorhosié-Noirs.

References

  1. Dogoso at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Dogoso". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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