Toro-tegu Dogon

Tɔrɔ tegu
Region Mali
Native speakers
2,900 (1998)[1]
Niger–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 dtt
Glottolog toro1253[2]

The Toro language, Tɔrɔ tegu 'Mountain speech', is a Dogon language spoken in Mali. It is closest to the prestige variety of Dogon, Jamsay tegu, though speakers deny they are related and understand little of it. (They understand nothing of the Dogon languages on the escarpment or plateau.) Hochstetler report difficulties in comprehension between Tɔrɔ tegu and one of the western Plains Dogon languages, Tomo kan.

References

  1. Tɔrɔ tegu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Toro Tegu Dogon". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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