Ditammari (language)

Ditammari
Spoken in	Togo , Benin
speaker	approx.47,500 (SIL 2002)
Linguistic classification	Niger-Congo Atlantic Congo Volta Congo North Gur languages Central Northern Oti-Volta Eastern Ditammari (language)
Official status
Official language in	one of the national languages ​​in Togo and Benin
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	-
ISO 639 -2	-
ISO 639-3	tbz

Ditammari (also: Ditamari , Tamari , Somba , Soma , Some , Tamberma ) is the language of the Tammari people .

The Lord's Prayer on Ditammari in the Paternoster Church of Jerusalem

Most of them live in Togo and Benin .

The number of speakers is approx. 47,500 ( SIL 2002). Around 27,500 (SIL 2002) Ditammari speakers live in Togo. In Benin there are around 20,000 (SIL 2002).

In Togo, the Ditammari speakers live mainly in the Kara region , in the Kandé prefecture east of Kandé on the border with Benin. The main places in Togo where Ditammari is spoken are Nadoba, Wantema, Warengo and Koutougou.

In Benin, the Ditammari speakers mainly live in the Atakora Province in the sub-prefectures of Boukombe and Natitingou. Ditammari is one of the Gur languages .

See also

• List of languages ​​of Togo

Web links

• Ethnologue.com
• Language map Togo
• Publication by Brigitte Reineke, VERB AND PREDICATION FOCUS IN DITAMMARI AND BYALI (PDF file; 349 kB)

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1. ↑ ^{a b c d} www.ethnologue.com