Samo language (Burkina)

Not to be confused with Samogo languages or Samo language (New Guinea).
Samo
Sane
Region Burkina Faso
Native speakers
 230,000 (1995–1999)[1]
Niger–Congo

  • Mande

    • Eastern Mande
      • Bissa–Busa
        • Samo–Busa
          • Samo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
stj – Matya Samo
sym – Maya Samo
sbd – Southern Samo
Glottolog mand1437[2]

Majority areas of Samo speakers, in grey, on a map of Burkina Faso

Samo (Sane, San, Sa) is a dialect cluster of Mande languages spoken in Burkina Faso. Intelligibility between its varieties is low. The following have been coded as separate languages by ISO:

Notes

  1. ↑ Matya Samo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Maya Samo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Southern Samo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mande Samo". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ The Seenku AKA Sembla language is also called 'Southern Samo'.


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