Northern Dagaare

E918697

Northern Dagaare is a major dialect of the Dagaare language spoken primarily in parts of northwestern Ghana and neighboring regions of Burkina Faso.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Northern Dagaare canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect ⓘ
variety of Dagaare language ⓘ
belongsTo Niger–Congo language family ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Central Dagaare ⓘ
linked to: Dagaaba

Southern Dagaare ⓘ
Waale ⓘ
countryOfRecognition Burkina Faso ⓘ
Ghana ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Northern Dagara (in some sources) ⓘ
linked to: Dagara
hasDialectContinuumWith Central Dagaare ⓘ
linked to: Dagaaba

Southern Dagaare ⓘ
hasDomain African linguistics ⓘ
sociolinguistics of Ghana ⓘ
hasEthnologueEntryUnder Dagaare ⓘ
linked to: Dagaaba
hasGlottologReferenceName Dagaare ⓘ
linked to: Dagaaba
hasISO639_3Code dga ⓘ
hasLinguisticFeature noun class remnants ⓘ
tone for lexical and grammatical contrast ⓘ
verbal aspect marking ⓘ
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length ⓘ
tone ⓘ
hasTonalSystem yes ⓘ
isCoveredByISOCode Dagaare language ⓘ
isMutuallyIntelligibleWith other Dagaare dialects ⓘ
isSubjectOf descriptive linguistic studies on Dagaare ⓘ
languageBranch Northern Gur ⓘ
languageFamily Gur languages ⓘ
languageGroup Mabia languages ⓘ
primaryWordOrder SVO ⓘ
region West Africa ⓘ
spokenBy Dagaaba people NERFINISHED ⓘ
spokenIn Burkina Faso ⓘ
Ghana ⓘ
spokenInRegion northwestern Ghana ⓘ
southwestern Burkina Faso ⓘ
subdivisionOf Dagaare language ⓘ
usedBy rural communities in neighboring Burkina Faso ⓘ
rural communities in northwestern Ghana ⓘ
usedFor everyday communication ⓘ
local education in some schools ⓘ
oral literature ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

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

Dagaare language → hasDialect → Northern Dagaare ⓘ
Southern Dagaare → closelyRelatedTo → Northern Dagaare ⓘ
Dagaare–Birifor → hasVariety → Northern Dagaare ⓘ
Dagari → hasDialect → Northern Dagaare ⓘ