Dagaare language

E267638

The Dagaare language is a Gur language spoken primarily by the Dagaaba people in northwestern Ghana and parts of Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Dagaare language canonical 2
Dagara language 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Gur language
Oti–Volta language
language
closelyRelatedTo Dagbani language
Frafra language
Mossi language
countryOfficialRecognition Ghana
ethnicGroup Dagaaba people
glottocode daga1275
hasAlternativeName Dagaa
Dagara
Dagari
hasDialect Birifor
Dagaaba
surface form: Central Dagaare

Northern Dagaare
Southern Dagaare
Wala
surface form: Waala
hasLinguisticFeature noun class system
hasLiteraryTradition folktales
proverbs
hasPhonologicalFeature ATR vowel harmony
tone
hasStandardizedOrthography true
hasSVOOrder true
ISO639-3 dga
languageFamily Atlantic–Congo languages
Gur languages
Niger–Congo languages
macrolanguageGrouping Dagaare–Birifor
region northeastern Ivory Coast
northwestern Ghana
southwestern Burkina Faso
spokenIn Burkina Faso
Ghana
Côte d'Ivoire
surface form: Ivory Coast

West Africa
subfamily Northern Gur
surface form: Northern Gur languages
usedFor local education
oral literature
religious practice
traditional music
usedIn basic education in northern Ghana
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Gur languages hasMemberLanguage Dagaare language
Southern Gur languages hasLanguage Dagaare language
Southern Gur languages hasLanguage Dagaare language
this entity surface form: Dagara language
Lobi language neighboringLanguages Dagaare language
this entity surface form: Dagara language