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Doghose language

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Region
  
Burkina Faso

ISO 639-3
  
dos

Native speakers
  
(20,000 cited 1991)

Glottolog
  
dogo1295

Language family
  
Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Gur Southern Gur Doghose–Gan Dogosé

Dogosé, or Doghose, is a Gur language of Burkina Faso.

There are multiple spellings of this name, due to the difficulties of spelling the second consonant, [ɣ]. Dogosé is currently preferred, but traditional Doghose is found in much of the literature. Rarer spellings are (Doro) Doghosié, Dokhosié, Dorhossié, Dorhosye, Dorosie, Dorossé and, with a different suffix, Dokhobe, Dorobé.

Dialect, which are close, are Klamaasise, Mesise, Lutise, Gbeyãse, Sukurase, Gbogorose.

References

Doghose language Wikipedia