Dyula language
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Not to be confused with Diola language.
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| Dioula | |
|---|---|
| Julakan | |
| Native to | Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali |
| Region | central southern Mali and abroad |
| Ethnicity | Dyula people |
| Native speakers | 2.7 million[citation needed] 1.2 million[1] (1991) |
| Language family | |
| Writing system | N'Ko, Latin, Arabic |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | dyu |
| ISO 639-3 | dyu |
Jula (Dyula, Dioula) is a Mande language spoken in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and Mali. It is one of the Manding languages, and is most closely related to Bambara, being mutually intelligible with Bambara as well as Malinke. It is a trade language in West Africa and is spoken by millions of people, either as a first or second language. It is written in the Arabic script and the Latin script, as well as in the indigenous N'Ko alphabet.
[edit] External links
- Map of Jula language from the LL-Map Project
- Information about Jula language from the MultiTree Project
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Ethnologue report for language code: dyu
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