Mabia languages

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Mabia languages are a group of closely related Gur languages spoken primarily in northern Ghana and surrounding regions of West Africa.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Mabia languages canonical 7
Mabia Gur languages 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Gur languages
language family
arealFeatureOf Savanna belt of West Africa
linked to: Sudan savanna
ethnolinguisticGroup Dagaaba people NERFINISHED
Dagomba people
Gurunsi peoples
Kusasi people NERFINISHED
Mamprusi people
Mole-Dagbani peoples
hasAlternativeName Mabia Gur languages
linked to: Mabia languages

Mabia group
hasLinguisticFeature noun class system
tone
verb–subject–object word order (VSO) or subject–verb–object word order (SVO)
hasPart Birifor language
Buli language
Dagaare language
Dagbani language
Farefare language
Frafra language
Hanga language
Kassena language
linked to: Kasem language

Konkomba language
Kusaal language
Mampruli language
Moore language
Nankani language
Safaliba language
Sisaala language
Talni language
Wali language
hasWritingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet
partOf Gur language family
primaryRegion Volta Basin
spokenIn Benin
Burkina Faso
Côte d’Ivoire
linked to: Côte d'Ivoire

Ghana
Mali
Northern Ghana
Togo
West Africa
subclassOf Central Gur languages
linked to: Gur languages

Niger–Congo languages
usedFor interethnic communication in northern Ghana
usedIn local radio broadcasting in northern Ghana
oral literature in northern Ghana

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Dagbani language subbranch Mabia languages
Mabia languages hasAlternativeName Mabia Gur languages
linked to: Mabia languages
Dagbanli languageGroup Mabia languages
Kpalsi dialect languageSubgroup Mabia languages
Nankani dialect relatedTo Mabia languages
Northern Gur hasSubgroup Mabia languages
Northern Dagaare languageGroup Mabia languages