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The Oti–Volta languages form a subgroup of the Gur languages, comprising about 30 languages of northern Ghana, Benin, and Burkina Faso spoken by twelve million people. The most populous language is Mooré, the national language of Burkina Faso, spoken by over 55% of Burkina Faso’s 20 million population and an additional 1 million in neighboring countries such as Ghana, Ivory Coast, Niger, and Mali.

Oti–Volta
Geographic
distribution		Burkina Faso, northern Ghana and Benin
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo?
  • Atlantic–Congo
    • Savannas
      • Gur
        • Northern
          • Oti–Volta
Glottologotiv1239

The family is named after the Oti and Volta rivers.


Languages


The internal classification of Oti–Volta, as worked out by Manessy 1975–79[1][2] and Naden 1989[3][4] (Williamson & Blench 2000[5][6]) is as follows:

Oti–Volta 
 

Buli–Koma: Buli, Konni

 
 
 

Eastern (Somba): Biali, Mbelime, Tammari (Ditammari), Waama

 
 
Western
(Mole–Dagbani, Mabia) 
 

Nootre

 
 

Northwest: Mõõré, Frafra, Safaliba, Wali, Dagaare–Birifor

 
 

Southeast: Dagbani, Hanga, Kamara, Kusaal, Nabit, Talni, Mampruli, Kantosi

 
 
 
 

Gurma: Ngangam, Gourmanchéma, Moba (Bimoba), Ntcham (Akaselem), Nateni, Miyobe, Konkomba

 
 

Yom–Nawdm: Nawdm, Yom

 
 
 
 
 

Native Dagbani speakers assert that Dagbani is mutually intelligible with Dagaare, Frafra, Mamprusi, and Wali, but in the case of Dagaare, Frara and Wali it is rather the case that many people can understand some of a language which is not their mother tongue. These languages are not mutually intelligible with Mõõré or Kusaal (a language spoken in Bawku West District and adjacent areas).


Bodomo (2017)


Bodomo (2017) refers to the Western Oti–Volta group (and also including Buli–Koma) as Central Mabia.[7][8] The term Mabia is a portmanteau of the two lexical innovations ma- 'mother' + bia 'child'.[9]

The following is a classification of the Central Mabia languages from Bodomo (2017), as cited in Bodomo (2020).[9] Bodomo's Central Mabia group consists of 7 subgroups.


See also



Bibliography



References


  1. Manessy, Gabriel (1975). Les langues Oti-Volta. Paris: SELAF.
  2. Manessy, Gabriel (1979). Contribution à la classification généalogique des langues voltaïques : - le proto-central (Langues et civilisations à tradition orale №37 ed.). SELAF: PARIS.
  3. Naden, Tony (1989). Gur. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. pp. 141–168.
  4. Bendor-Samuel, John T. [ed.] (1989). The Niger-Congo Languages. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help)
  5. Heine, Bernd and Derek Nurse [eds] (2000). African Languages — An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help)
  6. Williamson, Kay and Roger Blench (2000). Niger–Congo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 11–42.
  7. Bodomo, Adams. 2017. Mabia: its etymological genesis, geographical spread and some salient genetic features. Paper presented at the Mabia Languages Conferences in Winneba, Ghana and Vienna, Austria.
  8. Naden, Tony. 2021. Comparative Dictionary of Central Mabia Languages (Formerly Western Oti-Volta) / Dictionnaire Comparatif Des Langues Mabia-Central (anciennement Western Oti-Volta). m.s.
  9. Bodomo, Adams. 2020. "Mabia: Its Etymological Genesis, Geographical Spread, and some Salient Genetic Features." In: Bodomo A., Abubakari H. & Issah, S. 2020. Handbook of the Mabia Languages of West Africa. Galda Verlag, Berlin, Germany. 400 pages, ISBN 978-3-96203-117-6 (Print); ISBN 978-3-96203-118-3 (E-Book)

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[fr] Langues oti–volta

Les langues oti–volta forment un sous-groupe des langues gur, comprenant environ 30 langues du nord du Ghana, du Bénin et du Burkina Faso parlées par douze millions de personnes. La langue la plus parlée est le mòoré, la langue nationale du Burkina Faso, parlée par cinq millions de personnes, y compris dans le nord du Togo et du Ghana (dialecte Yanga). Les langues oti–volta bénéficient d'une bonne intelligibilité mutuelle.


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