Santanɛ dialect

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The Santanɛ dialect is a regional variety of the Siwu language spoken by the Mawu people of eastern Ghana.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
variety of Siwu language
country Ghana
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Mawu people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Santanɛ variety of Siwu
hasDialectContinuumWith Akpafu dialect NERFINISHED
Lolobi dialect NERFINISHED
hasLinguisticType tone language
hasMorphologyType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature ATR vowel harmony
tone
hasWordOrder SVO
isMinorityLanguageVarietyIn Ghana NERFINISHED
ISO639-3 akp (macrolanguage: Siwu/Akpafu-Lolobi)
isRegionalVarietyOf Siwu language NERFINISHED
languageFamily Kwa languages NERFINISHED
Niger–Congo languages
partOf Siwu language NERFINISHED
region Volta Region NERFINISHED
spokenBy Mawu people NERFINISHED
spokenIn eastern Ghana NERFINISHED
usedIn everyday communication among Mawu people
oral tradition of Mawu people
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Siwu language hasDialects Santanɛ dialect