Ethnicity Dyula people | Writing system N'Ko, Latin, Arabic | |
Native to Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali Region central southern Mali and abroad Native speakers (2.5 million cited 1985–2012)
10–15 million L2 speakers (2012) Language family Niger–Congo
Mande
Western Mande
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Manding
East Manding
Bambara–Dyula
Dioula | ||
Jula (Dyula, Dioula) is a Mande language spoken in Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, and Mali. It is one of the Manding languages, and is most closely related to Bambara, being mutually intelligible with Bambara as well as Malinke. It is a trade language in West Africa and is spoken by millions of people, either as a first or second language. It is written in the Arabic script and the Latin script, as well as in the indigenous N'Ko alphabet.
A movie spoken in Dyula is Fanta Régina Nacro's Night of Truth.
References
Dyula language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA