Bisa

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Bisa is a Gur (Voltaic) language spoken primarily in parts of Burkina Faso and neighboring West African countries.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Gur language
Voltaic language
language
countryStatusInBurkinaFaso national minority language GENERATED
hasAlternativeName Bisa-Busa NERFINISHED
Bissa NERFINISHED
hasDialects eastern dialects
northern dialects
southern dialects
hasEthnologueEntry Bisa NERFINISHED
hasGlottocode biss1243
hasISO639-3Code bib
hasLinguisticClassification Niger–Congo > Atlantic–Congo > Volta–Congo > North > Gur > Northern Gur > Bisa
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
nasalized vowels
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
isEndangeredStatus vulnerable
languageBranch Gur NERFINISHED
languageFamily Niger–Congo NERFINISHED
neighboringLanguages Bwa NERFINISHED
Gourmanchéma NERFINISHED
Mossi NERFINISHED
region Central Burkina Faso NERFINISHED
Eastern Burkina Faso
spokenIn Burkina Faso NERFINISHED
Ghana
Mali NERFINISHED
West Africa NERFINISHED
subfamilyOf Northern Gur languages NERFINISHED
typologicalFeature SVO basic word order
tone language
usedByEthnicGroup Bissa people NERFINISHED
usedInDomain local trade
oral communication
traditional culture

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