Dogon
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dialect continuum of southeastern Mali
Key facts
- Geographic distribution
- Dogon country , Mali (mainly Bandiagara Region )
- Ethnicity
- Dogon people
- Linguistic classification
- Niger-Congo ? Dogon
- Subdivisions
- Plains Dogon Escarpment West Dogon ( Budu ) North Plateau Naŋa – Walo ( Yanda ) Tebul Dogon ? Ana Dogon
- Glottolog
- dogo1299
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- language
- Subclass of
- Benue–Congo
- Country
- Mali
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- indigenous to
- Mopti Region
- topic's main category
- Category:Dogon languages
- linguistic typology
- subject–object–verb
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Dogon languages are a small closely related language family that is spoken by the Dogon people of Mali and may belong to the proposed Niger–Congo family. There are about 600,000 speakers of its dozen languages. They are tonal languages, and most, like Dogul, have two tones, but some, like Donno So, have three. Their basic word order is subject–object–verb.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dogon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.