Ampari Dogon, also known as ''Ambange'' or ''Ampari kora'', is a
Dogon language
The Dogon languages are a small closely related language family that is spoken by the Dogon people of Mali and may belong to the proposed Niger–Congo family. There are about 600,000 speakers of its dozen languages. They are tonal languages, a ...
spoken in
Mali
Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is the List of African countries by area, eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of over . The country is bordered to the north by Algeria, to the east b ...
.
The language has been called ''Ejenge Dõ'' or ''Kolum So'' in the literature. However, there are two Ejenge groups, the
Mombo and the Ampari. The Ampari understand Mombo but not vice versa; this appears to be learned intelligibility, since the Ampari visit Mombo yearly.
In the village of Flicko, people call themselves ''Nyamboli'' and their language ''Nyambeeŋge'', but these terms vary regionally.
References
Further reading
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External links
Flicko wordlist(Blench 2005)
Pa wordlist The dialect of the village of Pa is the most distinct from Mombo.
Dogon languages
Languages of Mali
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