Region Mali, Burkina Faso | Native speakers 80,000 (1998) | |
Language family Niger–Congo
Mande
Western
Northwestern
Samogo
Duun ISO 639-3 Either:
dux – West Duun
dnn – East Duun Glottolog duun1242 (Duungooma)
dzuu1241 (Dzuungoo) | ||
Duun is a Mande language of Mali. There are two principal varieties of Duun, West Duun, or Duungooma (a.k.a. Du, Samogho-sien), in Mali, and East Duun, or Dzuungoo, in Burkina Faso. These are clearly distinct but have a reasonable degree of mutual intelligibility with each other and with Banka (Bankagooma). Dialects of East Duun, Kpan (Kpango, Samoro-guan) and Dzùùngoo (Samogo-iri), are easily intelligible.
References
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