Samo language (Burkina)
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Not to be confused with Samogo languages or Samo language (New Guinea).
| Samo | |
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| Spoken in | Burkina Faso |
| Native speakers | 230,000 (1995–1998) |
| Language family |
Niger–Congo ?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | variously: stj – Matya Samo sym – Maya Samo sbd – Southern Samo |
Majority areas of Samo speakers, in grey, on a map of Burkina Faso
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Samo is a dialect cluster of Mande languages spoken in Burkina Faso. Intelligibility between varieties is low. The following have been coded as separate languages in Ethnologue:
- Matya Samo
- Maya Samo
- Southern Samo[1]
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