Dompo language
| Dompo | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Ghana |
| Ethnicity | 970 (2000)[1] |
Native speakers | 65 (1999)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
doy |
| Glottolog |
domp1238[2] |
Dompo is an endangered unclassified language of Ghana. Speakers are shifting to Nafaanra. It is spoken adjacent to the main town of the Nafaanra people, namely Banda, Brong-Ahafo Region, Ghana. Blench (2015) reports that it is spoken by 10 households.
Classification
Dompo has numerous parallels with the Gonja language, but does not appear to be directly related to it. Blench (1999) suggests three possibilities:
- it is a Gonja dialect that has come under heavy external influence;
- it is a related Guang language that has been relexified, largely from Gonja;
- it is of some other source, and relexified, largely from Gonja.
None of the Dompo names for wild plants or animals resemble Gonja, suggesting that the last is the most likely. Some Dompo animal names show resemblances with Mpra.[3] It may even be a relic of the pre-Niger–Congo languages of West Africa.
References
- 1 2 Dompo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Dompo". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Blench, Roger (2007) Recovering data on Mpra [=Mpre] a possible language isolate in North-Central Ghana
- Blench, Roger. 1999. Recent Field Work in Ghana: Report on Dompo and a note on Mpre.
- Blench, Roger. 2015. The Dompo language of Central Ghana and its affinities.
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