Mabia languages

E916943

Mabia languages are a group of closely related Gur languages spoken primarily in northern Ghana and surrounding regions of West Africa.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Mabia languages canonical 7
Mabia Gur languages 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Gur languages ⓘ
language family ⓘ
arealFeatureOf Savanna belt of West Africa ⓘ
linked to: Sudan savanna
ethnolinguisticGroup Dagaaba people NERFINISHED ⓘ
Dagomba people ⓘ
Gurunsi peoples ⓘ
Kusasi people NERFINISHED ⓘ
Mamprusi people ⓘ
Mole-Dagbani peoples ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Mabia Gur languages ⓘ
linked to: Mabia languages

Mabia group ⓘ
hasLinguisticFeature noun class system ⓘ
tone ⓘ
verb–subject–object word order (VSO) or subject–verb–object word order (SVO) ⓘ
hasPart Birifor language ⓘ
Buli language ⓘ
Dagaare language ⓘ
Dagbani language ⓘ
Farefare language ⓘ
Frafra language ⓘ
Hanga language ⓘ
Kassena language ⓘ
linked to: Kasem language

Konkomba language ⓘ
Kusaal language ⓘ
Mampruli language ⓘ
Moore language ⓘ
Nankani language ⓘ
Safaliba language ⓘ
Sisaala language ⓘ
Talni language ⓘ
Wali language ⓘ
hasWritingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet
partOf Gur language family ⓘ
primaryRegion Volta Basin ⓘ
spokenIn Benin ⓘ
Burkina Faso ⓘ
Côte d’Ivoire ⓘ
linked to: Côte d'Ivoire

Ghana ⓘ
Mali ⓘ
Northern Ghana ⓘ
Togo ⓘ
West Africa ⓘ
subclassOf Central Gur languages ⓘ
linked to: Gur languages

Niger–Congo languages ⓘ
usedFor interethnic communication in northern Ghana ⓘ
usedIn local radio broadcasting in northern Ghana ⓘ
oral literature in northern Ghana ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

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

Dagbani language → subbranch → Mabia languages ⓘ
Mabia languages → hasAlternativeName → Mabia Gur languages ⓘ
linked to: Mabia languages
Dagbanli → languageGroup → Mabia languages ⓘ
Kpalsi dialect → languageSubgroup → Mabia languages ⓘ
Nankani dialect → relatedTo → Mabia languages ⓘ
Northern Gur → hasSubgroup → Mabia languages ⓘ
Northern Dagaare → languageGroup → Mabia languages ⓘ