Sembla language
Sembla (Sambla), or Seenku (Seeku), is a Mande language of Burkina Faso. The northern and southern dialects, Timiku and Gbeneku, are easily intelligible.
Seenku | |
---|---|
Sembla | |
Region | Burkina Faso |
Native speakers | (17,000 cited 1995)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | sos |
Glottolog | seek1238 [2] |
The language is also known as Sembla, Sambla, Samogho, and "Southern Samo", which is also the name of one of the Samo languages.
References
- Seenku at Ethnologue (13th ed., 1996).
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Seeku". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.