The Dogon dialects of the western plains below the Bandiagara Escarpment is Mali are mutually intelligible. They are sometimes called the Kan Dogon because they use the word kan (also spelled kã) for varieties of speech. The dialects are:
The latter two are traditionally subsumed under the name Tene kã (Tene Kan, Tene Tingi), but Hochstetler separates them because the three varieties are about equidistant.
There are a quarter million speakers of these dialects, about evenly split between Tomo Kan and Tene Kan, making this the most populous of the Dogon languages. There are a few Tomo-speaking villages just across the border in Burkina Faso.
Consonant sound /t͡ʃ/ only rarely occurs and in almost absent.
Consonant sounds [z ʃ ʒ] are absent, except in loanwords.
/ɡ/ can be realized as a fricative [ɣ] between vowel sounds /a ɔ/.
Sounds [f h] only occur from loanwords, and are interchangeable.
Glottal sound [ʔ] can only occur as an element in some reduplicated forms of vowel-initial words, or between vowels within a word.
Vowels
Oral
Nasal
Front
Back
Front
Back
Close
i iː
u uː
ĩ ĩː
ũ ũː
Close-mid
e eː
o oː
ẽ ẽː
õ õː
Open-mid
ɛ ɛː
ɔ ɔː
ɛ̃ ɛ̃ː
ɔ̃ ɔ̃ː
Open
a aː
ã ãː
In Tomo Kan, an extra central vowel sound [ʉ] is also attested possibly as a result of /i/ preceding a nasalised segment or a /u/. It may also regularly be pronounced as [u] as well.[2]
References
Tomo Kan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Tene Kan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Dyachkov, Vadim (2019). A Grammar of Tomo Kan Dogon.
Heath, Jeffrey (2015). A Grammar of Togo Kan. University of Michigan.
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