Kasem
| Kasem (Kasɩm, Kassem, Kasim) | ||
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Spoken in |
Ghana , Burkina Faso | |
| speaker | 250,000 (as of 1998) | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | a national language in Ghana | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
nic |
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| ISO 639-3 | ||
Kasem ( Kasɩm ; also Kassem , Kasim ) is a West African language.
It is one of the Gurunsi languages belonging to the Gur languages , a subfamily of the Volta-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo languages . Their speakers are called Kassena (also Kasena ).
About 130,000 speakers of the Kasem live in Ghana . In Ghana, Kasem has the status of an Official Literary Language and is used in the central north of the Northern Region in the Kassena-Nankana District .
Kasem is spoken by around 120,000 people in Burkina Faso , mostly in the Nahouri province in the cities of Pô and Tiébélé .
Dialects of the Kasem are Ost-Kasem, West-Kasem.
grammar
The Kasem has eight nominal classes , which are made up of four genera. The following table shows the class symbol that is also used as a pronoun.
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| Classes 1/2 | w ʊ | ba |
| Classes 3/4 | dı | ya |
| Grades 5/6 | ka | sı |
| Grades 7/8 | k ʊ | tı |
literature
- DPEBA: Lexique kasɩm - français . ANTBA, Ouagadougou 2001
Web links
- Information about Kasem at ethnologue.com (English)
- Declaration of Human Rights on Kasem on the UNHCHR website