Bankan Tey Dogon

Bankan Tey Dogon, at first called Walo-Kumbe Dogon after the two main villages it is spoken in, also known as Walo and Walonkore, is a divergent, recently described Dogon language spoken in Mali. It was first reported online by Roger Blench,^[2] who reports that it is "clearly related to Nanga", which is only known from one report from 1953.

Bankan Tey
Walo-Kumbe
Region	Mali
Native speakers	(1,300 cited 1998 census)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Dogon Nanga Bankan Tey
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dbw
Glottolog	bank1259
ELP	Bankan Tey

A third village investigated at the time, Been, speaks a related but lexically distinct form, Ben Tey Dogon.

References

1. Bankan Tey at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. "DOGON LANGUAGES". Archived from the original on 2013-06-15.

Sources

• Blench, Roger (2005). "A survey of Dogon languages in Mali: Overview". OGMIOS: Newsletter of Foundation for Endangered Languages. 3.02 (26): 14–15. Retrieved 2011-06-30..
• Hochstetler, J. Lee; Durieux, J.A.; E.I.K. Durieux-Boon (2004). Sociolinguistic Survey of the Dogon Language Area (PDF). SIL International. Retrieved 2011-06-30.

External links

• Walo–Kumbe wordlist (Dendo and Blench, 2005)