Northern Dagaare

E918697

Northern Dagaare is a major dialect of the Dagaare language spoken primarily in parts of northwestern Ghana and neighboring regions of Burkina Faso.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Northern Dagaare canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
variety of Dagaare language
belongsTo Niger–Congo language family
closelyRelatedTo Central Dagaare
linked to: Dagaaba

Southern Dagaare
Waale
countryOfRecognition Burkina Faso
Ghana
hasAlternativeName Northern Dagara (in some sources)
linked to: Dagara
hasDialectContinuumWith Central Dagaare
linked to: Dagaaba

Southern Dagaare
hasDomain African linguistics
sociolinguistics of Ghana
hasEthnologueEntryUnder Dagaare
linked to: Dagaaba
hasGlottologReferenceName Dagaare
linked to: Dagaaba
hasISO639_3Code dga
hasLinguisticFeature noun class remnants
tone for lexical and grammatical contrast
verbal aspect marking
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
tone
hasTonalSystem yes
isCoveredByISOCode Dagaare language
isMutuallyIntelligibleWith other Dagaare dialects
isSubjectOf descriptive linguistic studies on Dagaare
languageBranch Northern Gur
languageFamily Gur languages
languageGroup Mabia languages
primaryWordOrder SVO
region West Africa
spokenBy Dagaaba people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Burkina Faso
Ghana
spokenInRegion northwestern Ghana
southwestern Burkina Faso
subdivisionOf Dagaare language
usedBy rural communities in neighboring Burkina Faso
rural communities in northwestern Ghana
usedFor everyday communication
local education in some schools
oral literature
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

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

Dagaare language hasDialect Northern Dagaare
Southern Dagaare closelyRelatedTo Northern Dagaare
Dagaare–Birifor hasVariety Northern Dagaare
Dagari hasDialect Northern Dagaare