Mooré

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Mooré is a major Gur language spoken primarily by the Mossi people of Burkina Faso and neighboring West African countries.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Mooré canonical 8
Moré 1
Mossi 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Gur language
language
natural language
alternativeName Mossi language
Mòoré
basicWordOrder SVO
belongsTo Niger–Congo language family
closelyRelatedTo Dagaare
linked to: Dagaaba

Dagbani
Mampruli
countryWithLargestNumberOfSpeakers Burkina Faso
dialectRegion Kaya area
Ouagadougou area
linked to: Ouagadougou

Yatenga area
ethnologueEntryName Mossi
linked to: Mooré
glottocode moss1236
hasApproximateNumberOfSpeakers over 7 million
hasBibleTranslation yes
hasDialects yes
hasISO639-1Code none
hasISO639-2Code mos
hasISO639-3Code mos
hasLiterature yes
hasNounClasses yes
hasStandardizedOrthography yes
hasSVOOrder true
hasTonalPhonology true
isTonalLanguage yes
languageFamily Gur languages
majorityLanguageOf central Burkina Faso
region West Africa
regulatedBy Burkinabè national language bodies
spokenBy Mossi people
spokenIn Burkina Faso
Côte d’Ivoire
linked to: Côte d'Ivoire

Ghana
Mali
Togo
linked to: Burkina Faso
statusInBurkinaFaso major national language
subfamily Northern Gur languages
linked to: Gur languages
usedAs lingua franca in parts of Burkina Faso
usedFor daily communication among Mossi people
usedIn education (non-formal and some primary contexts)
popular music in Burkina Faso
radio broadcasting in Burkina Faso
religious practice and preaching
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (10)

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

Ouagadougou localLanguage Mooré
Tenkodogo commonLanguages Mooré
subject linked to: Tenkodogo, Burkina Faso
Mooré ethnologueEntryName Mossi
linked to: Mooré
Ouahigouya commonLanguage Mooré
Mossi language alternativeName Moré
linked to: Mooré