Atlantic-Congo · ISO 639-3 dgi
Northern Dagara Language Dagaare
Northern Dagara is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken by about 1.1 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Northern Dagara is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Northern Dagara
Language family
- Atlantic-Congo
- Volta-Congo
- North Volta-Congo
- Gur
- Central Gur
- Northern Central Gur
- Bwamu-Oti-Volta
- Oti-Volta
- Nuclear Oti-Volta
- Gurma-Yom-Oti-Volta Occidental
- Oti-Volta Occidental
- Nuclear Oti-Volta Occidental
- Northwest Oti-Volta
- Safaliba-Dagaare
- Dagaaric
- North-West Dagaric
- Northern Dagara
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Northern Dagara language
Northern Dagara (Dagaare) is spoken by about 1.1 million people, which makes it the 443rd most spoken language in the world — just behind Dagaari Dioula (1.1 million) and ahead of Dan (1.1 million). It belongs to the Atlantic-Congo language family and, more precisely, to the North-West Dagaric group within the North Volta-Congo branch.
Where is Northern Dagara spoken?
Northern Dagara is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Burkina Faso (1.1 million).
Northern Dagara is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Northern Dagara is written in the Latin script. 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 Southern Dagaare, Dagaari Dioula, Mossi, Farefare, Dagbani, Kabiyè and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 dgi.
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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.