Konni

This article covers the language in Ghana. For the city of the same name in Niger see Birni-N'Konni .

Konni
Spoken in	Ghana
speaker	3,800 (2003)
Linguistic classification	Niger-Congo Atlantic Congo Volta Congo North Gur Central North Oti-Volta Buli coma Konni
Official status
Official language in	one of the national languages ​​of Ghana
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	-
ISO 639 -2	nic
ISO 639-3	kma

Konni (also Koni , Koma and Komung ) is the language of the Koma in northern Ghana.

With around 3,800 speakers (2003 GILLBT ), it is only a little widespread language within the language area of Sisaala and Buli . The Koma-linguistic islands are located in a geographically very isolated area northwest of the confluence of the Kulpawn and Sisili rivers , to which there was no road connection at the end of the 1980s. Yikpabongo is the main village of the Koma, another is called Nangurima.

Koma knows vowel harmony . Koma's nine vowel phonemes are divided into two groups ATR feature:

• + ATR / iueo /
• −ATR / ɩ ʋ ɛ ɔ a /

Konni is related to Mampruli , Hanga and Buli (here 60% agreement).

See also

• List of languages ​​in Ghana
• Languages ​​of Ghana

literature

• Tony Naden: Première note sur le Konni. (PDF; 1.4 MB) Journal of West African Languages, 14 (2) (1986) 76-112

Web links

• Ethnologue.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Retrieved February 1, 2016 .