Dyula people

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The Dyula people are a Mande-speaking West African ethnic group historically known as long-distance Muslim traders and cultural intermediaries across regions of present-day Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Mali, and neighboring countries.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Dyula people canonical 4
Dyoula people 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mande people ⓘ
ethnic group ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Dioula people ⓘ
linked to: Mande peoples

Dyoula people ⓘ
linked to: Dyula people

Jula people ⓘ
Juula people ⓘ
linked to: Jula people
arePartOf Mandé cultural sphere ⓘ
areRelatedTo Bambara people ⓘ
Malinké people ⓘ
linked to: Mandinka people

Mandinka people ⓘ
Soninke people ⓘ
culturalPractice Islamic education ⓘ
Quranic schooling ⓘ
ethnicGroupOf West Africa ⓘ
ethnolinguisticGroup Dyula ⓘ
historicalEconomicRole caravan trade ⓘ
gold trade ⓘ
kolanut trade ⓘ
historicallyKnownFor establishing trading diasporas ⓘ
spread of Islam in West Africa ⓘ
trans-Saharan trade connections ⓘ
historicalRegion Burkina Faso ⓘ
Côte d’Ivoire ⓘ
linked to: Côte d'Ivoire

Ghana ⓘ
Guinea ⓘ
Guinea-Bissau ⓘ
Ivory Coast ⓘ
linked to: Côte d'Ivoire

Liberia ⓘ
Mali ⓘ
Sierra Leone ⓘ
languageFamily Mande languages ⓘ
Niger–Congo languages ⓘ
linguaFrancaIn Burkina Faso ⓘ
Côte d’Ivoire ⓘ
linked to: Côte d'Ivoire

Mali ⓘ
mainLanguage Dyula language ⓘ
notableFeature multiethnic commercial networks ⓘ
urban trading communities ⓘ
region Sahel ⓘ
Savanna belt of West Africa ⓘ
linked to: Sudan savanna
religion Islam ⓘ
Sunni Islam ⓘ
socialStructure Islamic scholarly lineages ⓘ
merchant lineages ⓘ
traditionalOccupation long-distance trade ⓘ
merchant activity ⓘ
traditionalReligionAspect Sufi brotherhoods ⓘ
traditionalRole cultural intermediaries ⓘ
useScript Arabic script ⓘ
linked to: Arabic alphabet

Latin script ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

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

Mandinka people → relatedEthnicGroup → Dyula people ⓘ
Jula → hasEthnicAssociation → Dyula people ⓘ
Dyula people → alsoKnownAs → Dyoula people ⓘ
linked to: Dyula people
Dyula language → usedBy → Dyula people ⓘ
Dyula → usedByEthnicGroup → Dyula people ⓘ