Dan language

Dan
Yacouba
Region	Ivory Coast, Guinea, and Liberia.
Native speakers	1.6 million (2012)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Mande Eastern Mande Southeastern Mano–Dan Guro–Dan Tura–Dan Dan
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: dnj – Dan lda – Kla
Glottolog	dann1241[2]

Dan /ˈdæn/^[3] is a Mande language spoken primarily in Ivory Coast (~800,000 speakers) and Liberia (150,000–200,000 speakers). There is also a population of about 800 speakers in Guinea. Dan is a tonal language, with three main tones and two glide/contour tones.

Alternative names for the language include Yacouba or Yakubasa, Gio, Gyo, Gio-Dan, and Da. Dialects are Gweetaawu (Eastern Dan), Blowo (Western Dan), and Kla. Kla is evidently a distinct language.

Phonology

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i	ɨ	u
Close-mid	e	ɘ	o
Open-mid	ɛ	ɜ	ɔ
Open		a

References

1. Dan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Kla at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Dan". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh