Samo language (Burkina)
Not to be confused with Samogo languages or Samo language (New Guinea).
| Samo | |
|---|---|
| Sane | |
| Region | Burkina Faso |
Native speakers | 230,000 (1995–1999)[1] |
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Niger–Congo
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
Variously: stj – Matya Samo sym – Maya Samo sbd – Southern Samo |
| Glottolog |
mand1437[2] |
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Majority areas of Samo speakers, in grey, on a map of Burkina Faso | |
Samo (Sane, San, Sa) is a dialect cluster of Mande languages spoken in Burkina Faso. Intelligibility between its varieties is low. The following have been coded as separate languages by ISO:
- Matya Samo
- Maya Samo
- Southern Samo[3]
Notes
- ↑ Matya Samo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Maya Samo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Southern Samo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mande Samo". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ The Seenku AKA Sembla language is also called 'Southern Samo'.
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