Ben Tey Dogon, named after the village ''Been'' it is spoken in, is a divergent, recently described

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

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. It is closely related to Bankan Tey and Nanga Dogon. It is said that elders in the Dogon village of ''Gawru'' also speak this language. Been is reported to have been settled from the village of Walo, and Ben Tey Dogon differs from Walo Dogon primarily from being under a different foreign influence, as Been village is surrounded by Jamsay-speaking villages, which Walo is not.

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Dogon languages Languages of Mali Articles citing ISO change requests {{Dogon-lang-stub