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Sembla language

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Region
  
Burkina Faso

ISO 639-3
  
sos

Native speakers
  
17,000 (1995)

Glottolog
  
seek1238

Language family
  
Niger–Congo Mande Western Northwestern Samogo Seenku

Sembla (Sambla), or Seenku (Seeku), is a Mande language of Burkina Faso. The northern and southern dialects, Timiku and Gbeneku, are easily intelligible.

The language is also known as Sembla, Sambla, Samogho, and "Southern Samo", which is also the name of one of the Samo languages.

References

Sembla language Wikipedia