Mande · ISO 639-3 dyu
Dyula Language Julakan
Dyula is a Mande language spoken by about 2.7 million people in 1 country. It is written in the N’Ko and Latin scripts.
Where Dyula is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Dyula
Language family
- Mande
- Western Mande
- Manding-Kpelle
- Central Mande
- Manding-Jogo
- Manding-Vai
- Manding-Mokole
- Manding
- East Manding
- Dyula
Writing system
N’Ko and Latin scripts
Related languages
About the Dyula language
Dyula (Julakan) is spoken by about 2.7 million people, which makes it the 264th most spoken language in the world — just behind South Bolivian Quechua (2.8 million) and ahead of Northern Gondi (2.7 million). It belongs to the Mande language family and, more precisely, to the East Manding group within the Manding-Kpelle branch.
Where is Dyula spoken?
Dyula is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Burkina Faso (7.4 million).
Dyula is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Dyula is written in the N’Ko and Latin scripts. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Bambara, Eastern Maninkakan, Sankaran Maninka, Mandinka, Western Maninkakan, Susu and 1 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 dyu.
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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.