Samo language (Burkina)
Appearance
Samo | |
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Sane | |
Region | Burkina Faso |
Native speakers | (230,000 cited 1995–1999)[1] |
Niger–Congo
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Variously:stj – Matya Samosym – Maya Samosbd – 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'.