Sisaala language

Sisaala
Sissala
Region	Ghana, Burkina
Native speakers	(180,000 cited 1991–2003)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Gur Southern Gurunsi Western Sisaala
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: ssl – Western Sisaala sil – Tumulung Sisaala sld – Burkina Sissala sig – Paasaal
Glottolog	sisa1248[2]

Sisaala (Sissala) is a Gur language cluster spoken in Ghana near the town of Tumu^[3] and in the neighbouring republic of Burkina Faso. Western Sisaala is intermediate between Burkina and Tumulung Sisaala.

Paasaal is similar and also called (Southern) Sisaala.

References

1. Western Sisaala at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Tumulung Sisaala at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Burkina Sissala at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Paasaal at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Sisaala". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Edited by M.E.Kropp Dakubu, The Languages of Ghana, Kegan Paul International, 1988.

• Sisaala–English English–Sisaala Dictionary (1975). Ghana Institute of Linguistics, 231 pp. ISBN 9964-92-298-1. [Western Sisaala]