Bankan Tey Dogon, at first called Walo-Kumbe Dogon after the two main villages it is spoken in, also known as Walo and Walonkore, 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
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 ...
. It was first reported online by Roger Blench,
who reports that it is "clearly related to
Nanga", which is only known from one report from 1953.
A third village investigated at the time, Been, speaks a related but lexically distinct form,
Ben Tey Dogon
Ben Tey Dogon, named after the village ''Been'' it is spoken in, is a divergent, recently described Dogon language spoken in Mali
Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is the List of African countri ...
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External links
Walo–Kumbe wordlist(Dendo and Blench, 2005)
Dogon languages
Languages of Mali
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