Schenara
Schenara | ||
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Spoken in |
Mali | |
speaker | 137,000 (1991, number of speakers declining) | |
Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-3 |
shz |
The Schenara (self-name Syenara ), sometimes also called Senufo-Schenara , is one of a cluster of languages called Senari . It is a Senufo language spoken in Mali and the Sikasso and Kadiolo circles , as well as in the Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso .
It belongs to the Senufo language group and is spoken by around 100,000 people in Mali . Many of the original Schenari speakers now speak French , the only official language in Mali.
It is very close to most of the other Senufo languages, as is Mamara .
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In Mali, the Schenara is written with a Latin alphabet , which was defined by decree N o 159 / PG-RM of July 19, 1982.
Schenara alphabet (Mali 1982) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A. | B. | C. | D. | E. | Ɛ | F. | G | GB | H | I. | J | K | KP | L. | M. | N | Ɲ | Ŋ | O | Ɔ | P | R. | S. | SH | T | U | V | W. | Y | Z | ZH |
a | b | c | d | e | ɛ | f | G | gb | H | i | j | k | kp | l | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | O | ɔ | p | r | s | sh | t | u | v | w | y | z | zh |
literature
- Direction Nationale de l'Alphabétisation Fonctionnelle et de la Linguistique Appliquée, Alphabets et règles d'orthographe des langues nationales , 1993, Bamako, DNAFLA
Individual evidence
- ↑ ethnologue .com, Lewis, M. Paul (éd.), 2009, Ethnologue: Languages of the World , 16ème éd. , Dallas, Texas, SIL International
- ↑ DNAFLA, 1993