Dagbani language
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Dagbani is a Gur language spoken by about 800,000 people in Ghana. Its speakers are primarily of the Dagomba people.
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Phonology
Vowels
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Consonants
| Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labial-velar | ||
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| Stop | Voiceless | ||||||
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| Nasal | |||||||
| Fricative | Voiceless
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Tone
Dagbani is a tonal language.
Writing system
Dagbani is written in the Latin alphabet, but the literacy rate is only 2–3%. The orthography currently used represents a number of allophonic distinctions.
Grammar
Morphology
Dagbani is agglutinative, but with some fusion of affixes.
Syntax
Dagbani strictly Agent Verb Object, like English.
Bibliography
External links
- [Knut Olawsky's Homepage]
- [The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive — Dagbani]
- [Ethnologue report for language code:dag]
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