• Douentza Sign Language, or Dogon Sign Language is a community sign language spoken in Douentza and neighboring communities in the Dogon country in Mali...
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    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...
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    800,000. They speak the Dogon languages, which are considered to constitute an independent branch of the Niger–Congo language family, meaning that they...
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    Bobo, Bozo, Dogon, Fula, Hassaniya, Kassonke, Maninke, Minyanka, Senufo, Songhay languages, Soninke and Tamasheq are official languages. French is the...
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  • American Sign Language, which is the language of instruction for those deaf children who go to school. Tebul Sign Language, village sign of the Dogon region...
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  • perhaps three hundred sign languages in use around the world today. The number is not known with any confidence; new sign languages emerge frequently through...
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  • Tebul Sign Language is a village sign language of the village of Uluban in the Dogon region of Mali, among speakers of Tebul Dogon. Bamako Sign Language Tebul...
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    Mande and Dogon, and there is no conclusive evidence for the inclusion of Ubangian. Several languages spoken in Africa belong to language families concentrated...
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  • national language along with Bambara, Bomu, Bozo, Dogon, Fula, Mamara, Songhay, Soninke, Tamasheq, the official language is French) Taiwan Sign Language: Taiwan...
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  • Dan Na Ambassagou (category Dogon)
    (“hunters who trust in God,” in Dogon language) is an ethnic Dogon militia in Mali. The militia was setup in 2016 to defend Dogon communities against attacks...
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  • Refers to the Tjwao dialect See Zimbabwean sign languages In the United States of America, English is the language of the Declaration of Independence, the...
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  • The Tebul language, also known as Tebul Ure, is a Dogon language spoken in Mali by the Tebul U (Tebul people). It was first reported under this name online...
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  • of sign languages are not well established due to a lagging in linguistic research, and many are isolates (cf. Wittmann 1991). Constructed language – Consciously...
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    in the east, while the Bissa language is spoken in the south. Education for the deaf in Burkina uses American Sign Language, which was introduced by the...
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    over 525 native languages spoken in Nigeria. The official language and most widely spoken lingua franca is English, which was the language of Colonial Nigeria...
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    singers have used the hybrid language and added to its popularity. Education for the deaf in Cameroon uses American Sign Language, introduced by the deaf American...
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  • Niger–Congo but excluding the Mande, Kru, Siamou, Kordofanian, Dogon and Ijoid languages) is accepted by Glottolog 4.4. Blench (2006, 2016) proposes that...
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    Sirius (category CS1 Latin-language sources (la))
    Walter van Beek concluded about the Dogon, "Though they do speak about sigu tolo [which is what Griaule claimed the Dogon called Sirius] they disagree completely...
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    Mali (category Articles containing Bambara-language text)
    Bozo, Dogon, Fula, Hassaniya Arabic, Kassonke, Maninke, Minyanka, Senufo, the Songhay languages, Soninke and Tamasheq, became official languages. The lingua...
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  • Nasalization (category Articles containing Polish-language text)
    trilled. Some languages contrast /r, r̃/ like Toro-tegu Dogon and Inor. A nasal lateral has been reported for some languages, Nzema language contrasts /l...
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    African art (redirect from Dogon art)
    and standing figures (Laude, 46–52). Signs of other contacts and origins are evident in Dogon art. The Dogon people were not the first inhabitants of...
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  • their language seems to be the only sign of a distinct Defaka identity. Use of the Defaka language however is quickly receding in favour of the language of...
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    Marcel Griaule (category Writers on Dogon religion)
    1956) was a French author and anthropologist known for his studies of the Dogon people of West Africa, and for pioneering ethnographic field studies in...
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    Germaine Dieterlen (category Writers on Dogon religion)
    Griaule. Dogon people Marcel Griaule Marcel Mauss Article fr:Paroles (film) on French language Wikipedia. Leon Dixon: The Amazing and Intriguing Dogons, June...
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  • List of contemporary ethnic groups (category CS1 Turkish-language sources (tr))
    9 May 2023. "Government Publishes Bill to recognise British Sign Language as a language of Gibraltar - 274/2022". Government of Gibraltar. 19 April 2022...
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  • Telugu, Tulu) Dogon languages Elamite Evenki Gothic Ancient Greek Haida Hajong Hittite Hopi Ijoid languages Itelmen Japonic languages (Japanese, Hachijo...
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  • This is a list of ISO 639-3 language codes starting with D. Index | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | p | q | r | s | t | u |...
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    Balanta people (category Articles containing French-language text)
    people originated in Sudan. Linguist Fernando Rogado Quintino found some language similarities between the Balanta and Sudanese peoples, which hinted at...
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  • terrorist groups in Dogon country, leading to the creation of the Dogon militia Dan Na Ambassagou in 2016—whose aim is to defend the Dogon against systematic...
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    covering the cheeks and upper face sides. The dark red eyes remain closed, as a sign that the person represented is dead. This contrasts with masks from Equatorial...
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