• Busa, or Bisã, is the Mande language of the former Borgu Emirate in northwestern Nigeria and northern Benin. It is called Busanci in Hausa, and has also...
    7 KB (596 words) - 11:22, 22 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Bissa language
    speak Busa (also known as Bisã) and Boko (also known as Boo). This peoples are referred to as Bussawa in Hausa. Busa language (Mande) Boko language Kyenga...
    9 KB (514 words) - 00:18, 26 April 2025
  • busa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Busa or BUSA may refer to: Bussa, Nigeria, the capital of Borgu Busa language (Mande), spoken in Borgu Busa language...
    632 bytes (119 words) - 15:19, 20 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Mande languages
    both. Mande Southeast Mande Southern Mande (Dan, Mah, etc.) Eastern Mande (Bisa, Busa, etc.) West Mande Central West (Manding–Kpelle) Central Mande Susu–Yalunka...
    30 KB (1,648 words) - 21:57, 2 May 2025
  • Eastern Mande languages (called Eastern Eastern Mande by Kastenholz, and Niger–Volta by Schreiber and also known as the Bisa–Busa languages) are a branch...
    3 KB (199 words) - 21:49, 6 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Languages of Nigeria
    branches represented in Nigeria are Mande, Atlantic, Gur, Kwa, Benue–Congo and Adamawa–Ubangi. Mande is represented by the Busa cluster and Kyenga in the northwest...
    50 KB (2,795 words) - 18:54, 24 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Senufo languages
    Senufo languages are bounded to the west by Mande languages, to the south by Kwa languages, and to the north and east by Central Gur languages. The Senufo...
    9 KB (921 words) - 17:13, 8 November 2024
  • Shongawa) is a Mande language of Nigeria. Shanga is a town situated in Sokoto State, Nigeria. The Shanga language is an endangered language and the Shanga...
    1 KB (98 words) - 11:38, 4 March 2023
  • Boko, or Boo, is a Mande language of Benin and Nigeria. Boko is the best-known name of this language, but it is also known as Boo or by its Hausa exonym...
    3 KB (281 words) - 21:54, 30 April 2024
  • solve for quantum computers. BQP or bqp can also refer to: Busa language (Mande), a language spoken in Nigeria and Benin, by ISO 639 code Great Order Party...
    714 bytes (137 words) - 22:22, 5 December 2023
  • list of Mandé peoples of Africa. The predominant countries of each group's residence are shown in bold and are italicised. Manding (whose languages are in...
    3 KB (278 words) - 23:12, 6 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Niger–Congo languages
    hypothetical language family spoken over the majority of sub-Saharan Africa. It unites the Mande languages, the Atlantic–Congo languages (which share...
    65 KB (7,265 words) - 19:24, 22 May 2025
  • Bissa people (category Mandé people)
    a Mande ethnic group of south-central Burkina Faso, northeastern Ghana and the northernmost tip of Togo. Their language, Bissa, is a Mande language that...
    9 KB (792 words) - 00:49, 27 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Atlantic–Congo languages
    They comprise all of Niger–Congo apart from Mande, Dogon, Ijoid, Siamou, Kru, the Katla and Rashad languages (previously classified as Kordofanian), and...
    8 KB (497 words) - 23:14, 17 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Bantu languages
    The Bantu languages (English: UK: /ˌbænˈtuː/, US: /ˈbæntuː/ Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a language family of about 600 languages that are spoken by the Bantu...
    53 KB (5,050 words) - 09:51, 21 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Samo language (Burkina)
    Samo (Sane, San, Sa), also known as Mande Samo, is a dialect cluster of Mande languages spoken in Burkina Faso and Mali. Intelligibility between Samo...
    6 KB (178 words) - 00:30, 25 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Languages of Africa
    families. The classifications below follow Glottolog. Mande, some 70 languages, including the major languages of Mali and Guinea; these are generally thought...
    212 KB (10,522 words) - 03:48, 29 May 2025
  • Consciously devised language Endangered language – Language that is at risk of going extinct Ethnologue#Language families Extinct language – Language that no longer...
    34 KB (302 words) - 22:14, 5 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Volta–Congo languages
    Kordofanian branches and possibly Senufo. In the infobox at the right, the languages which appear to be the most divergent (including the dubious Senufo) are...
    4 KB (423 words) - 21:12, 24 April 2025
  • of Kouakoudougou. The speakers are a numu (blacksmith) caste among the Mande. It had 30 active speakers in 2019 out of an ethnic population that was...
    3 KB (392 words) - 14:31, 21 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Benue–Congo languages
    (sometimes called East Benue–Congo) is a major branch of the Volta-Congo languages which covers most of Sub-Saharan Africa. Central Nigerian (or Platoid)...
    15 KB (799 words) - 03:39, 18 January 2025
  • Kyenga (also spelled Tyenga, Tienga, Kyanga, Tyanga, Cenka, Kenga), is a Mande language of Nigeria and Benin. Usage is declining, and the Kyenga are shifting...
    1 KB (59 words) - 13:02, 5 December 2022
  • Igboid languages constitute a branch of the Volta–Niger language family. Williamson and Blench conclude that the Igboid languages form a "language cluster"...
    5 KB (175 words) - 06:28, 22 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Mambiloid languages
    The twelve Mambiloid languages are languages spoken by the Mambila and related peoples mostly in eastern Nigeria and in Cameroon. In Nigeria the largest...
    6 KB (281 words) - 16:51, 29 August 2024
  • The Sere languages (also called the Ndogoic or Sere–Ndogo languages) are a proposed family of Ubangian languages spoken in South Sudan and the Democratic...
    4 KB (229 words) - 13:52, 13 September 2023
  • Vige, Vigué, Vigye, is a language of Burkina Faso. Vigué is the term for the ethniciity while Viemo is the name of the language. It may be related at a...
    4 KB (242 words) - 23:23, 22 August 2024
  • feature in Niger–Congo, shared only by such distant branches as Mande and Dogon. Like Mande and Dogon, Ijoid lacks even traces of the noun class system considered...
    6 KB (425 words) - 19:25, 3 December 2023
  • also known as Wín, is a language of Burkina Faso that is of uncertain affiliation within Niger-Congo. It may be a Gur language. There are two dialects...
    2 KB (144 words) - 21:32, 18 November 2022
  • Mprε or Mpra is an extinct language spoken in the village of Butei (8°52′N 1°15′W / 8.867°N 1.250°W / 8.867; -1.250) in central Ghana, located between...
    3 KB (313 words) - 22:36, 17 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Grassfields languages
    The Grassfields languages (or Wide Grassfields languages) are a branch of the Southern Bantoid languages spoken in the Western High Plateau of Cameroon...
    6 KB (393 words) - 16:05, 19 January 2024