Dagara

E916950

Dagara is a Gur language spoken primarily in parts of Ghana and Burkina Faso by the Dagara people.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Gur language
language
associatedReligion Christianity
Islam NERFINISHED
traditional African religions
belongsToMacroArea Africa NERFINISHED
country Burkina Faso NERFINISHED
Republic of Ghana NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup Dagara people NERFINISHED
family Gur languages NERFINISHED
glottologCode daga1275
glottologName Dagaare NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Dagaare NERFINISHED
Dagari NERFINISHED
hasDialect Central Dagara NERFINISHED
Northern Dagara NERFINISHED
Southern Dagara NERFINISHED
hasEthnologueEntry Dagaare language NERFINISHED
hasLinguisticTypology SVO word order
agglutinative morphology
hasLiterature folktales
proverbs
songs
hasPhonologicalFeature tone
vowel harmony
hasStandardization orthography for Dagara
isEndangered no (relatively vigorous use)
ISO639-3 dga
languageBranch Niger–Congo NERFINISHED
neighboringLanguage Dagbani
Frafra NERFINISHED
Mossi NERFINISHED
partOf South-Central Gur languages NERFINISHED
region West Africa
spokenBy Dagara people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Burkina Faso NERFINISHED
Ghana
subfamily Northern Gur languages NERFINISHED
usedFor daily communication
local education
oral tradition
usedIn local radio broadcasting
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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