Karaboro language

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Name (Latin)
Karaboro language
Other forms of name
Kama language
Karama language
Koroma language
See Also From tracing topical name
Gur languages
See Also From tracing place name
Burkina Faso
Côte d'Ivoire
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q4213541
Library of congress: sh 87007054
Sources of Information
  • Work cat.: Lesser-known language collection(Karaboro)
  • Curr. trends ling.:v. 7, p. 151 (Karaboro)
  • Ethnologue:p. 187 (Karaboro, Kama, Karama, Koroma)
  • Perrot, J. Les langues dans le monde ancien et moderne, 1981:v. 1, p. 106 (Karaboro)
  • Voegelin lang.:p. 153 (Karaboro, Kama, Karama, Koroma)

Wikipedia description:

The Karaboro languages are a dialect continuum spoken in Burkina Faso. They belong to the Senufo subfamily, but are geographically separated from other Senufo languages by a small band of unrelated languages. Linguistically, they share phonetic, morphological, and lexical features separate them from other Senufo languages. Within Senufo they are thought to be most closely related to the Senari languages. Karaboro is commonly divided into two languages: Syer-Tenyer, or Western Karaboro; and Kar, or Eastern Karaboro. The two languages are closely related but have limited mutual intelligibility. Syer was spoken by an estimated 65,000 people in 2015, often with Jula as their second language.

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