Gurene language

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The Gurene language is a Gur language spoken primarily by the Frafra people in northern Ghana and parts of Burkina Faso.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Gurune language 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Gur language
language
natural language
country Burkina Faso NERFINISHED
Ghana
hasAlternativeName Farefare NERFINISHED
Frafra
Gurenɛ NERFINISHED
Gurune NERFINISHED
Nankani-Gurene NERFINISHED
hasBasicWordOrder SVO
hasDialects Bolgatanga variety
Bongo
Booni NERFINISHED
Gurene proper
Nankani NERFINISHED
Talni NERFINISHED
Zuarungu NERFINISHED
hasISO639-3Code gur
hasLanguageCode ISO 639-3:gur
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature tone
vowel harmony
hasRegulatingBody Bureau of Ghana Languages NERFINISHED
hasScriptStandardization orthography developed in Ghana
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
isMutuallyIntelligibleWith Nankani language NERFINISHED
Talni language NERFINISHED
isPartOfEthnolinguisticGroup Gurunsi peoples NERFINISHED
isRelatedTo Dagbani language NERFINISHED
Kusaal language NERFINISHED
Mampruli language NERFINISHED
Mossi language NERFINISHED
isTaughtIn primary schools in parts of northern Ghana
isUsedBy Frafra diaspora communities
partOf Niger–Congo language family NERFINISHED
region Sahelian zone of West Africa
spokenBy Frafra people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Burkina Faso NERFINISHED
Ghana
Upper East Region of Ghana NERFINISHED
northern Ghana
subfamilyOf Gur languages NERFINISHED
usedFor local radio broadcasting
music
oral tradition
religious practice
storytelling
writingSystemDirection left-to-right

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Southern Gur languages hasLanguage Gurene language
Frafra language subclassOf Gurene language
this entity surface form: Gurune language