Dogon languages

Dialect continuum of southeastern Mali DogonGeographicdistributionDogon country, Mali (mainly Bandiagara Region)EthnicityDogon peopleNative speakersest. 600,000Linguistic classificationNiger-Congo?DogonSubdivisions Plains Dogon Escarpment West Dogon (Budu) North Plateau Naŋa–Walo (Yanda) Tebul Dogon ? Ana Dogon Language codesGlottologdogo1299Map of the Dogon languages Bangime (possible language isolate) Plains Dogon – Jamsai, Toro Tegu, Western Plains (Togo Kan, Tengu Kan, Tomo Kan) Escarpment Dogon – Toro So, Tommo So, Donno So West Dogon – Duleri, Mombo, Ampari–Penange, Budu North Plateau Dogon – Bondum, Dogul Nanga languages – Nanga, Bankan Tey, Ben Tey, Yanda Tebul Dogon (+ Tebul Sign Language) Ana Dogon 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, and most have two tones, but some, like Donno So, have three. Their basic word order is subject–object–verb. External relationships The evidence linking Dogon to the Niger–Congo family is mainly a few numerals and some