Samo language (Burkina)

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Samo
Sane
Region Burkina Faso
Native speakers
unknown (230,000 cited 1995–1999)[1]
Niger–Congo
  • Mande
    • Eastern Mande
      • Bissa–Busa
        • Samo–Busa
          • Samo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
stj – Matya Samo
sym – Maya Samo
sbd – Southern Samo
Glottolog mand1437[2]
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Majority areas of Samo speakers, in grey, on a map of Burkina Faso

Samo (Sane, San, Sa) is a dialect cluster of Mande languages spoken in Burkina Faso. Intelligibility between its varieties is low. The following have been coded as separate languages by ISO:

  • Matya Samo
  • Maya Samo
  • Southern Samo[3]

Notes

  1. Matya Samo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Maya Samo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Southern Samo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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  3. The Seenku AKA Sembla language is also called 'Southern Samo'.

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