Dida (language)
| Dida | ||
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Spoken in |
Ivory Coast | |
| speaker | 200,000 (1993) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
gud (Yocoboué Dida) |
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The Dida is a language spoken in Ivory Coast .
It is a dialect continuum of the Kru language group .
A distinction is made between two groups in Dida, Yocoboué Dida (101,600 speakers in 1993) and Lakota Dida (93,800 speakers in 1993), which are only marginally mutually understandable and should actually be viewed as separate languages. Both have different dialects: Yocoboué (Yokubwe) consists of the Lozoua (Lozwa) and Divo dialects (7,100 and 94,500 speakers), and Lakota consists of the Lakota (Lákota), Abou (Abu) and Vata dialects. The prestige dialect is the variant of the Lozoua dialect spoken in the city of Guitry , but it is facing competition from French , the Ivorian official language, as it enjoys an even higher level of prestige from the political elite.
Yocoboué is also known as Guitry, Yocoboue, Yokouboué, Gakpa, Goudou (Gudu), and Kagoué (Kagwe). Lakota, on the other hand, is also known as Dieko, Gabo, Satro, Guébie (Gebye), Brabori and Ziki.
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- Monik Charette: Analysis phonologique des emprunts en dida de Niakassé . In: University of Quebec (ed.): Revue québécoise de linguistique . 14, No. 1, Montreal, 1984, pp. 87-111. , ISSN 0835-3603 .
- Jonathan Kaye: Tone sensitive rules in Dida . In: Studies in African Linguistics . No. supplement 8, December 1981, pp. 82-85. , ISSN 0039-3533 .
- Kirk Miller: The Tones of Abou Dida (= (MA thesis)). University of California, Santa Barbara 2005.