Dogon languages
Dialect continuum of southeastern Mali / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Dogon languages are a small closely related language family that is spoken by the Dogon people of Mali and may belong to the proposed Niger–Congo family. There are about 600,000 speakers of its dozen languages. They are tonal languages, and most, like Dogul, have two tones, but some, like Donno So, have three. Their basic word order is subject–object–verb.
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Ethnicity | Dogon people |
Geographic distribution | Dogon country, Mali (mainly Bandiagara Region) |
Linguistic classification | Niger-Congo?
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Glottolog | dogo1299 |
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