Dioula language
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| Dioula Julakan |
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| Spoken in: | Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire | |
| Region: | central southern Mali and abroad | |
| Total speakers: | 2,700,000 (several millions more including second language speakers) | |
| Language family: | Niger-Congo Mande West Mande Manding Dioula |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | dyu | |
| ISO 639-3: | dyu | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Dioula (Dyula) is a Mande language spoken in Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire. It is one of the Manding languages, and is most closely related to Bambara (in a manner similar to the relation between American English and British English). It is probably the most used language for trade in West Africa.[citation needed]
Dioula language and people are distinct from the Diola (Jola) people of Guinea-Bissau and Casamance.
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