Language · ISO 639-3 dnj
Dan Language Yacouba
Dan is a language spoken by about 1.1 million people in 2 countries. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Dan is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Dan
Language family
No family classification is available.
Writing system
Latin script
About the Dan language
Dan (Yacouba) is spoken by about 1.1 million people, which makes it the 444th most spoken language in the world — just behind Northern Dagara (1.1 million) and ahead of Irish (1.1 million).
Where is Dan spoken?
Dan is used in 2 countries. The largest communities live in Côte d'Ivoire (1.2 million) and Liberia (429,542).
Share of the population that speaks Dan: Côte d'Ivoire 4% (1.2 million) and Liberia 7.9% (429,542).
Dan is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Dan is written in the Latin script.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 dnj.
Frequently asked questions about Dan
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.