Sisaala language

Sisaala
Sissala
Region Ghana, Burkina
Native speakers
(180,000 cited 1991–2003)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
ssl  Western Sisaala
sil  Tumulung Sisaala
sld  Burkina Sissala
sig  Paasaal
Glottolog sisa1248[2]

Sisaala (Sissala) is a Gur language cluster spoken in Ghana near the town of Tumu[3] and in the neighbouring republic of Burkina Faso. Western Sisaala is intermediate between Burkina and Tumulung Sisaala.

Paasaal is similar and also called (Southern) Sisaala.

References

  1. Western Sisaala at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Tumulung Sisaala at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Burkina Sissala at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Paasaal at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Sisaala". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Edited by M.E.Kropp Dakubu, The Languages of Ghana, Kegan Paul International, 1988.


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