Doghose language

Not to be confused with Dogoso language or Dogoše.

Dogosé
Doghose
Region	Burkina Faso
Native speakers	unknown (20,000 cited 1991)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Gur Southern Gur Doghose–Gan Dogosé
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`dos`
Glottolog	`dogo1295`^[2]

Dogosé, or Doghose, is a Gur language of Burkina Faso.

There are multiple spellings of this name, due to the difficulties of spelling the second consonant, [ɣ]. Dogosé is currently preferred, but traditional Doghose is found in much of the literature. Rarer spellings are (Doro) Doghosié, Dokhosié, Dorhossié, Dorhosye, Dorosie, Dorossé and, with a different suffix, Dokhobe, Dorobé.

Dialect, which are close, are Klamaasise, Mesise, Lutise, Gbeyãse, Sukurase, Gbogorose.

References

↑ Dogosé at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Dogose". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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