Sembla language

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Seenku
Sembla
RegionBurkina Faso
Native speakers
(17,000 cited 1995)[1]
Niger–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-3sos
Glottologseek1238

Sembla (Sambla), or Seenku (Seeku), is a Mande language of Burkina Faso. The northern and southern dialects, Timiku and Gbeneku, are easily intelligible.

The language is also known as Sembla, Sambla, Samogho, and "Southern Samo", which is also the name of one of the Samo languages.

References

  1. ^ Seenku at Ethnologue (13th ed., 1996).