Viemo
| Vyemo | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Burkina Faso | |
| speaker | 8,000 (1995) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
vig |
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The language Viemo (ISO 639-3: vig; also called vige , vigué and vigye ) is a Gur language and is the only remaining representative of the Viemo languages within the Niger-Congo language family within the Gur languages .
The language is spoken by a total of 8,000 people in Burkina Faso in the province of Houet , about 40 kilometers southeast of Bobo Dioulasso in the Karankasso-Vigué department .
The speakers of the language are mostly bilingual with French as the official language . In the past, however, the Dioula had the function of a national language for the Viemo speakers.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ vig
- ↑ (1995 SIL)
- ↑ Ethnologue (16th)