Dyula

E643327

Dyula is a Mande language widely used as a trade and lingua franca in parts of West Africa, particularly in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, and Mali.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Dyula canonical 11
Jula (Dioula) 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mande language ⓘ
language ⓘ
lingua franca ⓘ
alternativeName Dioula ⓘ
Jula ⓘ
Julakan ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Bambara ⓘ
Maninka ⓘ
country Burkina Faso ⓘ
Côte d’Ivoire ⓘ
linked to: Côte d'Ivoire

Mali ⓘ
glottologCode dyul1238 ⓘ
hasDialectContinuumWith Bambara ⓘ
Maninka ⓘ
hasNasalVowels yes ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature seven-vowel system (in many varieties) ⓘ
hasStandardizedOrthography yes ⓘ
hasToneDistinctions yes ⓘ
influencedBy Arabic ⓘ
French ⓘ
ISO639-1Code dyu ⓘ
ISO639-2Code dyu ⓘ
ISO639-3Code dyu ⓘ
languageFamily Mande ⓘ
lexifierFor urban varieties in Burkina Faso ⓘ
macroLanguageOf several Manding lects in trade contexts ⓘ
primaryWordOrder SOV ⓘ
region West Africa ⓘ
subfamily Western Mande ⓘ
subgroup Manding ⓘ
linked to: Dioula
typologicalFeature agglutinative morphology ⓘ
tonal language ⓘ
usedAs lingua franca ⓘ
trade language ⓘ
usedByEthnicGroup Dyula people ⓘ
Mande peoples ⓘ
usedInDomain commerce ⓘ
interethnic communication ⓘ
urban markets ⓘ
usedInEducation non-formal education programs ⓘ
usedInMedia radio broadcasts ⓘ
usedInReligion Islamic preaching ⓘ
writingSystem Arabic script ⓘ
linked to: Arabic alphabet

Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

N’Ko script ⓘ
linked to: N'Ko script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (12)

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

Mande → hasLanguage → Dyula ⓘ
Jula → hasAlternativeName → Dyula ⓘ
Samori Touré → ethnicGroup → Dyula ⓘ
Solomana Kanté → languageWorkedOn → Dyula ⓘ
subject linked to: Solomana Kante
Minianka → closelyRelatedTo → Dyula ⓘ
Kibidwe quarter → languageUsedLocally → Jula (Dioula) ⓘ
linked to: Dyula