Santanɛ dialect

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The Santanɛ dialect is a regional variety of the Siwu language spoken by the Mawu people of eastern Ghana.

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Label Occurrences
Santanɛ dialect canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
variety of Siwu language
country Ghana
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Mawu people
hasAlternativeName Santanɛ variety of Siwu
hasDialectContinuumWith Akpafu dialect
Lolobi dialect
hasLinguisticType tone language
hasMorphologyType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature ATR vowel harmony
tone
hasWordOrder SVO
isMinorityLanguageVarietyIn Ghana
ISO639-3 akp (macrolanguage: Siwu/Akpafu-Lolobi)
isRegionalVarietyOf Siwu language
languageFamily Kwa languages
Niger–Congo languages
partOf Siwu language
region Volta Region
spokenBy Mawu people
spokenIn eastern Ghana
usedIn everyday communication among Mawu people
oral tradition of Mawu people
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Siwu language hasDialects Santanɛ dialect