Samo language (Burkina)

Samo
Samo
Sane
Region	Burkina Faso
Native speakers	(230,000 cited 1995–1999)
Language family	Niger–Congo Mande Eastern Mande Bissa–Busa Samo–Busa Samo; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously:; stj – Matya Samo; sym – Maya Samo; sbd – Southern Samo
Glottolog	mand1437
	Majority areas of Samo speakers, in grey, on a map of Burkina Faso

Samo (Sane, San, Sa) is a dialect cluster of Mande languages spoken in Burkina Faso. Intelligibility between its varieties is low. The following have been coded as separate languages by ISO:

Matya Samo
Maya Samo
Southern Samo^[2]

Notes

^ Matya Samo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Maya Samo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Southern Samo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ The Seenku a.k.a. Sembla language is also called 'Southern Samo'.

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[e18-1] Matya Samo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Maya Samo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Southern Samo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] The Seenku a.k.a. Sembla language is also called 'Southern Samo'.

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