Mampruli (language)

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Mampruli

Spoken in

Ghana , Togo
speaker 220,000 (2004)
Linguistic
classification
Official status
Official language in a national language
Language codes
ISO 639 -1

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ISO 639 -2

nic

ISO 639-3

maw

Mampruli (also Mamprule , Manpelle , Ngmamperli ) is the language of the Mamprusi in Ghana and Togo .

About 220,000 speakers (2004 SIL) live in Ghana east and west of Gambaga, in the northeast of the Northern Region .

Mampruli is also spoken in Togo.

Recognized dialects are East Mampruli and West Mampruli with an intelligibility of 50% with Dagbani . Lexical agreement is 95% with Dagbani and 90% with Farefare .

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