Dagaare Wali languages

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Dagaare-Wali (also: Oti-Volta-Sprachen , West , Nordwest ) is the name of a language group of the Gur languages in the family of the Niger-Congo languages in West Africa .

The Dagaare Wali languages ​​are spoken in Ghana and Burkina Faso . A total of nine languages ​​belong to this group. With over 5 million speakers, Mòoré is the numerically strongest language of this group; With around 4,000 speakers, Safaliba is the smallest of the Dagaare Wali languages. In total, over 6 million speakers belong to the Dagaare-Wali language group.

Language family

Niger Congo Languages

Atlantic Congo languages
Volta Congo languages
North
Gur languages
Central
North
Oti-Volta languages
west
Northwest ( Dagaare-Wali )
Dagaari-Birifor languages
Birifor
Dagaari
Dagaare , Ghana
Dagaari Dioula , Burkina Faso
Dagara, Northern , Burkina Faso
Farefare , Ghana
Mòoré , Burkina Faso
Safaliba , Ghana
Wali , Ghana

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