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Preferred term

dyuDyula  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Jula (Dyula, Dioula) is a Mande language spoken in Burkina Faso, Côte dIvoire and Mali. It is one of the Manding languages, and is most closely related to Bambara, being mutually intelligible with Bambara as well as Malinke. It is a trade language in West Africa and is spoken by millions of people, either as a first or second language. It is written in the Arabic script and the Latin script, as well as in the indigenous NKo alphabet.

Entry terms

  • Dyula language

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • dyu

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • dyu

ISO 639-3 code

  • dyu

Notation

  • dyu

In other languages

  • Dioula

    French

  • dioula
  • Dioula

    German

  • Dyula-Sprache
  • diula

    Italian

  • Lingua dioula
  • Portuguese

  • diúla
  • Língua dioula
  • diula

    Spanish

  • Idioma diula

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/dyu

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