Bassari (language)
| Bassari | ||
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Spoken in |
Senegal , Guinea | |
| speaker | 17,910 | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
bsc |
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The Bassari , also known as Onyan , is the language spoken by a West African ethnic group whose territory is located in the border area between Senegal and Guinea .
The Bassari is also called basari, tenda basari, biyan, onëyan, onian, ayan and wo.
speaker
The language, sometimes called tenda , is used by around 17,910 people, mainly in the Koundara , Youkounkoun and Kédougou region , but also by some emigrated Bassaris in the urban centers of Dakar , Tambacounda and Conakry .
The Bassari language is related to the Coniagui language, also spoken in Koundara and Youkounkoun.
font
Bassari is written using the Latin alphabet.
In Senegal, a 2005 decree regulates the orthography of the Onyan.
| Onyan alphabet | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| A. | B. | Ɓ | C. | D. | Ɗ | E. | Ë | F. | G | H | I. | J | K | L. | M. | N | Ñ | O | P | R. | S. | Ŝ | T | U | W. | Y | Ƴ |
| a | b | ɓ | c | d | ɗ | e | ë | f | G | H | i | j | k | l | m | n | ñ | O | p | r | s | ŝ | t | u | w | y | ƴ |
- ĥ, ŵ, ŷ the consonants h, w, y are nasalized
- As long as the vowels e and o are accented, they have the accent aigus: é, ó.
literature
- Monica Cox, La phonologie du Bassari , Lomé, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1974, 39
- Marie-Paule Ferry, “Deux langues tenda du Sénégal oriental, basari et bédik, présentées à partir du questionnaire de Greenberg”, Bulletin SELAF , n ° 7, June 1968, page 64
- Marie-Paule Ferry, “Les affixes nominaux et leur rôle grammatical dans la phrase basari”, Journal of West African Languages , vol. 8, n ° 2, 1971, pages 113-122
- Marie-Paule Ferry, "L'expression du temps chez les Bédik et les Basari du Sénégal oriental" in L'expression du temps dans quelques langues de l'Ouest africain par Pierre-François Lacroix, Paris, SELAF, 1972, page 196
- Marie-Paule Ferry, “Le bassari”, in Les langues dans le monde ancien et moderne , CNRS, 1981
- Gouvernement du Sénégal, Décret n ° 2005-987 du 21 octobre 2005 relatif à l'orthographe et à la séparation des mots en oniyan . ( copie saisie en ligne )
Individual evidence
- ^ Gouvernement du Sénégal, 2005.