Atlantic-Congo · ISO 639-3 dga
Southern Dagaare Language Dagaare
Southern Dagaare is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken by about 1.1 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Southern Dagaare is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Southern Dagaare
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
- Central-South Dagaric
- Southern Dagaare
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Southern Dagaare language
Southern Dagaare (Dagaare) is spoken by about 1.1 million people, which makes it the 441st most spoken language in the world — just behind Batak Mandailing (1.1 million) and ahead of Dagaari Dioula (1.1 million). It belongs to the Atlantic-Congo language family and, more precisely, to the Central-South Dagaric group within the North Volta-Congo branch.
Where is Southern Dagaare spoken?
Southern Dagaare is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Ghana (1.0 million).
Southern Dagaare is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Southern Dagaare 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 Dagaari Dioula, Northern Dagara, Mossi, Farefare, Dagbani, Kabiyè and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 dga.
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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.