Escarpment Dogon

Escarpment Dogon
Native to Mali
Region Bandiagara Escarpment
Native speakers
160,000 (1998)[1]
Niger–Congo
Standard forms
Tɔrɔ sɔɔ
Dialects
Tɔrɔ sɔɔ
Tɔmmɔ sɔɔ
Donno sɔ
Official status
Official language in
Mali
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
dts  Tɔrɔ sɔɔ
dds  Donno sɔ
dto  Tɔmmɔ sɔ
Glottolog esca1235[2]

Escarpment Dogon is a continuum of Dogon dialects of the Bandiagara Escarpment, including the standard language. There are three principal dialects:

The third dialect commonly listed is two subdialects without a common name:

Hochstetler confirms that these are intelligible with each other, but not with the more populous varieties of Dogon on the neighboring plains.

While Toro So was chosen as the official standard, because it has the most in common with the largest number of Dogon languages due to its central location, and is used in educational and official contexts, Jamsay Dogon is the prestige variety and is the variety used for radio broadcasts.

Notes

  1. Tɔrɔ sɔɔ at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Donno sɔ at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Tɔmmɔ sɔ at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Escarpment Dogon". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Apparently 'Dogon language', using the exonym Dɔgɔ 'Dogon'

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