Dyula people

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The Dyula people are a Mande-speaking West African ethnic group historically known as long-distance Muslim traders and cultural intermediaries across regions of present-day Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Mali, and neighboring countries.

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Dyula people canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Mande people
ethnic group
alsoKnownAs Mande peoples
surface form: Dioula people

Dyoula people NERFINISHED
Jula people
Jula people
surface form: Juula people
arePartOf Mandé cultural sphere
areRelatedTo Bambara people
Mandinka people
surface form: Malinké people

Mandinka people
Soninke people
culturalPractice Islamic education
Quranic schooling
ethnicGroupOf West Africa
ethnolinguisticGroup Dyula
historicalEconomicRole caravan trade
gold trade
kolanut trade
historicallyKnownFor establishing trading diasporas
spread of Islam in West Africa
trans-Saharan trade connections
historicalRegion Burkina Faso
Côte d'Ivoire
surface form: Côte d’Ivoire

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

Liberia
Mali
Sierra Leone
languageFamily Mande languages
Niger–Congo languages
linguaFrancaIn Burkina Faso
Côte d'Ivoire
surface form: Côte d’Ivoire

Mali
mainLanguage Dyula language
notableFeature multiethnic commercial networks
urban trading communities
region Sahel
Sudan savanna
surface form: Savanna belt of West Africa
religion Islam
Sunni Islam
socialStructure Islamic scholarly lineages
merchant lineages
traditionalOccupation long-distance trade
merchant activity
traditionalReligionAspect Sufi brotherhoods
traditionalRole cultural intermediaries
useScript Arabic alphabet
surface form: Arabic script

Latin script

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Mandinka people relatedEthnicGroup Dyula people
Jula hasEthnicAssociation Dyula people