Bankan Tey Dogon

Bankan Tey Dogon, at first called Walo-Kumbe Dogon after the two main villages it is spoken in, also known as Walo and Walonkore, is a divergent, recently described Dogon language spoken in Mali. It was first reported online by Roger Blench, who reports that it is "clearly related to Nanga", which is only known from one report from 1953.

Bankan Tey
Walo-Kumbe
RegionMali
Native speakers
1,300 (1998 census)[1]
Niger–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-3dbw
Glottologbank1259[2]

A third village investigated at the time, Been, speaks a related but lexically distinct form, Ben Tey Dogon.

References

  1. Bankan Tey at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bankan Tey Dogon". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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