Mòoré

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Mòoré is a major Gur language spoken primarily by the Mossi people in Burkina Faso and surrounding West African countries.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Gur language
language
alternativeName Mooré NERFINISHED
Mossi language NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Dagbani NERFINISHED
Frafra (Gurenɛ) NERFINISHED
Mampruli NERFINISHED
countryStatus major national language of Burkina Faso
ethnicGroup Mossi people NERFINISHED
glottocode moor1254
hasBibleTranslation Bible translated into Mòoré
hasDiacritics uses diacritics such as the grave accent
hasDialect Kaya dialect
Ouagadougou dialect
Tenkodogo dialect
Yatenga dialect
Zondoma dialect NERFINISHED
hasLiterature modern written literature in Latin script
oral literature tradition
hasMorphologyFeature noun class system
hasPhonologyFeature contrastive tone
nasal vowels
vowel length distinctions
hasStandardVariety Ouagadougou variety
ISO639-1Code none
ISO639-2Code mos NERFINISHED
ISO639-3Code mos
languageFamily Gur languages NERFINISHED
linguisticTypology SVO word order
tonal language
numberOfSpeakers one of the most widely spoken languages in Burkina Faso
over 7 million
primaryRegion Plateau-Central Region of Burkina Faso NERFINISHED
central Burkina Faso
regionOfOrigin Mossi Kingdoms region
spokenIn Benin NERFINISHED
Burkina Faso NERFINISHED
Côte d’Ivoire NERFINISHED
Ghana NERFINISHED
Mali NERFINISHED
Togo NERFINISHED
subbranch Western Oti–Volta languages NERFINISHED
subfamily Northern Gur languages NERFINISHED
Oti–Volta languages NERFINISHED
usedAs lingua franca in parts of Burkina Faso
usedFor daily communication among Mossi people
local administration in Burkina Faso
radio broadcasting in Burkina Faso
religious activities
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Mooré alternativeName Mòoré