Toende Kusaal

E916955

Toende Kusaal is a dialect of the Kusaal language spoken primarily in the northeastern part of Ghana near the Burkina Faso border.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Toende Kusaal canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (40)

Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
variety of Kusaal language
area northeastern Ghana
belongsToEthnicGroup Kusaasi
borderRegion Burkina Faso
closelyRelatedTo Agole Kusaal
other Oti-Volta languages
country Ghana
geographicDistribution communities near Ghana–Burkina Faso border
hasAlternativeName Toende dialect of Kusaal
hasDialectalRelationWith Agole Kusaal
linked to: Kusaal
hasGrammaticalFeature noun class remnants
postposed determiners
verbal aspect distinctions
hasISO6393Code kus
hasLinguisticStatus minority language variety in Ghana
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature consonant alternations
contrastive vowel length
tone language
hasSociolinguisticStatus limited use in formal education
primarily oral
hasTonalSystem grammatical tone
lexical tone
hasWordOrder SVO
hasWritingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet
isDialectOf Kusaal
languageBranch Oti-Volta languages
languageFamily Gur languages
mutualIntelligibility partially mutually intelligible with Agole Kusaal
region Upper East Region
spokenBy Kusaasi people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Toende area of Kusaasi territory
subdivisionOf Kusaal language
usedAlongside English
Hausa
Mooré
usedFor everyday communication
local trade
oral tradition

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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

Kusaal language hasDialect Toende Kusaal
Koussassé hasDialects Toende Kusaal
Kusaal hasDialect Toende Kusaal