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Preferred term

nfrNafaanra  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Nafaanra (sometimes written Nafaara, pronounced ) is a Senufo language spoken in northwest Ghana, along the border with Côte d'Ivoire, east of Bondouko. It is spoken by approximately 61,000 people. Its speakers call themselves Nafana; others call them Banda or Mfantera. Like other Senufo languages, Nafaanra is a tonal language. It is somewhat of an outlier in the Senufo language group, with the geographically closest relatives, the Southern Senufo Tagwana–Djimini languages, approximately to the west, on the other side of Comoé National Park.

ISO 639-3 code

  • nfr

Notation

  • nfr

In other languages

  • Nafaanra

    French

  • Nafaanra

    German

URI

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

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