Samwe language

Samwe
Wara
Region Burkina Faso
Ethnicity Samba
Native speakers
4,500 (1993)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 wbf
Glottolog wara1292[2]

Samwé (Samoe), also known as Wara (Ouara, Ouala), is a Niger–Congo language of Burkina. Dialects are Negueni–Klani, Ouatourou–Niasogoni, Soulani. Niasogoni speakers have difficulty with Negueni, but not vice versa.

References

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


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