Dagbani

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Dagbani is a Gur language spoken primarily by the Dagomba people in northern Ghana.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Gur language
Oti-Volta language
language
country Ghana
ethnicGroup Dagomba NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Dagbane NERFINISHED
Dagbanli NERFINISHED
Dagomba NERFINISHED
hasCulturalRole marker of Dagomba identity
hasDigitalPresence Wikipedia edition
local language radio broadcasts
hasDomainUsage local administration in northern Ghana
religious activities in northern Ghana
hasGlottocode dagb1246
hasISO639-3Code dag
hasLinguisticResearchOn morphology
phonology
syntax
tone
hasNeighbouringLanguages Gonja NERFINISHED
Konkomba NERFINISHED
Mampruli NERFINISHED
hasNumberOfSpeakersEstimate over 1 million
hasPhonologicalFeature ATR vowel harmony
tone language
hasRegulatingBody Bureau of Ghana Languages NERFINISHED
hasScriptDevelopment standardized orthography in Latin script
hasStandardVariety Tamale Dagbani NERFINISHED
hasWordOrder SVO
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
isCloselyRelatedTo Kusaal NERFINISHED
Mampruli NERFINISHED
Moore NERFINISHED
isMutuallyIntelligibleWith Nanuni NERFINISHED
isTaughtAt University for Development Studies NERFINISHED
University of Ghana NERFINISHED
languageBranch Gur
languageFamily Niger–Congo NERFINISHED
languageGroup Mabia languages
languageSubbranch Central Gur NERFINISHED
region North East Region of Ghana NERFINISHED
Northern Region of Ghana NERFINISHED
Savannah Region of Ghana NERFINISHED
spokenBy Dagomba people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Ghana NERFINISHED
Northern Ghana NERFINISHED
usedAs lingua franca in northern Ghana
usedIn education in northern Ghana
local media in northern Ghana

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