Gonja (language)
| Gonja | ||
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Spoken in |
Ghana | |
| speaker | 230,000 (2004) | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | one of the national languages of Ghana | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
nic |
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| ISO 639-3 | ||
Gonja (also Ngbanyito ) is the Ghanaian language of the Gonja people .
It is spoken by around 230,000 (2004 SIL ) speakers in the southern part of the Northern Region , in west-central Ghana, around the upper branches of the Volta Reservoir , between the Black Volta and both sides of the White Volta.
Dialects are Gonja and Choruba (Choroba).