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Mooré, also called More or Mossi, [2] [3] is a Gur language of the Oti–Volta branch and one of four official languages of Burkina Faso. It is the language of the Mossi people, spoken by approximately 6.46 million people in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Benin, Niger, Mali, Togo, and Senegal as a native language, but with many more L2 ...
The Mossi speak the Mooré language, of the Western Oti-Volta group of languages, northwestern sub-group. It is spoken in Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Ivory Coast. [9] [10] This language group is part of a larger grouping, Gur languages belonging to the Niger–Congo family. In the language there are a few dialects based mainly on region.
French is a language of instruction in the nation's schools. [25] However, fewer than 15 percent of the population uses French on a day-to-day basis. [ 6 ] Despite this low percentage, there is a high amount of support in keeping French as a language of instruction because it provides children a pathway to social mobility and assures continued ...
The Silmi-Mossi are a very interesting mixed race found in the circles of Ouahigouya and Ouagadougou.Mixed races are not rare in West Africa: the Toucouleurs of Fouta-Toro, the Foulahs of Fouta-Djallon, the Ouassoulonkés, the Foulankés, the Khassonkés, are mixed races composed of fulanis and 'Negroes', fulani and Sereres (or wolofs) for the Toucouleurs, fulani and Mandés (mainly Malinkes ...
The number of languages natively spoken in Africa is variously estimated (depending on the delineation of language vs. dialect) at between 1,250 and 2,100, [1] and by some counts at over 3,000. [2]
The Languages of Africa is a 1963 book of essays by the linguist Joseph Greenberg, in which the author sets forth a genetic classification of African languages that, with some changes, continues to be the most commonly used one today.
This is a list of extinct languages of Africa, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers and no spoken descendant. There are 69 languages listed. There are 69 languages listed.
An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native people, it becomes an extinct language . UNESCO defines four levels of language endangerment between "safe" (not endangered) and "extinct": [ 1 ]