Jula

E302226

Jula is a major Mande language widely used as a trade and lingua franca in parts of West Africa, particularly in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, and Mali.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Jula canonical 3
Joula 1
Urban Jula 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mande language
language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Bambara
Mandinka
Maninka
glottocode jula1239
hasAlternativeName Dioula
Dioula
surface form: Dioula language

Dyula
Dyula language
Jula
surface form: Joula

Jula language
Julakan
hasDialect Rural Jula
Jula self-linksurface differs
surface form: Urban Jula
hasEthnicAssociation Dyula people
hasNeighboringContactLanguage French
Mooré
Senufo languages
iso639-3Code dyu
languageBranch Western Mande
languageFamily Mande
languageGroup Western Mande
surface form: Manding
primaryCountryOfUse Burkina Faso
Côte d'Ivoire
surface form: Côte d’Ivoire

Mali
region West Africa
spokenIn Burkina Faso
Côte d'Ivoire
surface form: Côte d’Ivoire

Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Côte d'Ivoire
surface form: Ivory Coast

Mali
Senegal
Sierra Leone
The Gambia
subclassOf Manding language
Niger–Congo languages
surface form: Niger–Congo language
typologicalFeature subject–object–verb basic word order
tonal language
uses postpositions
usedAs lingua franca
trade language
usedInDomain Islamic education
commerce
interethnic communication
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

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

Mande hasLanguage Jula
Jula hasAlternativeName Jula
this entity surface form: Joula
Jula hasDialect Jula self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Urban Jula