Dyula language

Not to be confused with Diola language.

Dioula
Julakan
Native to	Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali
Region	central southern Mali and abroad
Ethnicity	Dyula people
Native speakers	unknown (2.5 million cited 1985–2012) 10–15 million L2 speakers (2012)
Language family	Niger–Congo Mande Western Mande ... Manding East Manding Bambara–Dyula Dioula
Writing system	N'Ko, Latin, Arabic
Language codes
ISO 639-2	dyu
ISO 639-3	dyu
Glottolog	dyul1238

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.

See also

• Dyula people