• Escarpment Dogon is a continuum of Dogon dialects of the Bandiagara Escarpment, including the standard language. There are three principal dialects: Toro So Tɔrɔ...
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    Escarpment Dogon Donno So Dogon Tommo So Dogon Toro So Dogon: Ibi So, Ireli, Sangha So, Yorno So, Youga So Nangan Dogon Bankan Tey Dogon Ben Tey Dogon Nanga...
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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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  • The Toro language, Tɔrɔ tegu 'Mountain speech', is a Dogon language spoken in Mali. It is closest to the prestige variety of Dogon, Jamsay tegu, though...
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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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  • Tommo So is a language spoken in the eastern part of Mali's Mopti Region. It is placed under the Dogon language family, a subfamily of the Niger-Congo...
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  • Mombo Dogon is a Dogon language spoken in Mali. Helabo and Miambo are dialects. Until c. 2005 Ampari was considered a dialect. However, while Ampari understand...
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  • Lewe (fr. Lébé) is a Dogon religious, secret institution and primordial ancestor, who arose from a serpent. According to Dogon cosmogony, Lebe is the...
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    group in West Africa with diverse languages. Like the term Serer country occupied by the Serer ethnic group, Dogon country is vast, and lies southwest...
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    or clan in Dogon. It is one of the four tenets of Dogon religion—an African spirituality among the Dogon people of Mali. Although the Dogons' "Society...
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    Nilo-Saharan on the Dogon Plateau? Evidence from substrate vocabulary in Bangime and Dogon. Available in: http://www.rogerblench.info/Language...
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  • The Bondum language, Bondum Dom, is a Dogon language spoken in Mali. It is closest to Dogul Dogon, though not enough for mutual intelligibility. Dialects...
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    باندياغارا الصخرية, French: falaise de Bandiagara) is an escarpment in the Dogon country of Mali. The sandstone cliff rises about 500 m (1,600 ft) above...
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  • refer to: Bomu language, a language of West Africa Distinct from the standard variety of the Dogon language of West Africa, known Toro so and as Bomu Tegu...
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    Nommo (category Dogon religion)
    Dogon religion and cosmogony (sometimes referred to as demi deities) venerated by the Dogon people of Mali. The word Nommos is derived from a Dogon word...
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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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  • 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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    spirit." Some groups like the Dogon people of Mali possess several masks, each with its own unique function. The Dogon are governed by three main religious...
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  • Trill consonant (category Articles containing Spanish-language text)
    clear how frequently it is actually trilled. Some languages contrast /r, r̃/ like Toro-tegu Dogon and Inor. A linguolabial trill [r̼] is not known to...
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  • Kolum so, suggesting it should be classified as a West Dogon language. The people call themselves Budu, and Tɔmmɔ- speakers call the language Budu-. It...
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  • Sangha, Mali (category Dogon holy places)
    a centre for Dogon traditional religion with many temples and shrines, and as a base for visitors to the local Dogon villages. Toro So is spoken in the...
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    Tellem (category Dogon history)
    them" in the Dogon language) were the people who inhabited the Bandiagara Escarpment in Mali between the 11th and 16th centuries CE. The Dogon people migrated...
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  • Duleri Dogon or Duleri Dom, also known as Tiranige dige, is a Dogon language spoken in Mali. Duleri Dogon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription...
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  • The Dogon dialects of the western plains below the Bandiagara Escarpment is Mali are mutually intelligible. They are sometimes called the Kan Dogon because...
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  • Jamsay Dogon is one of the Dogon languages spoken in Mali, and the only one spoken in Burkina Faso apart from a few villages of Tomo Kan. It is one of...
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  • Dogul language, Dogul Dom, is a Dogon language spoken in Mali. It is closest to Bondum Dogon, though not enough for mutual intelligibility. Dogul Dogon at...
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    Hogon (category Dogon religion)
    A hogon is a spiritual leader in a Dogon village who plays an important role in Dogon religion. A hogon is a religious figure as well as a temporal authority;...
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  • Yanda Dogon is a Dogon language spoken in Mali. It is reported to be lexically similar to Nanga, which is only known from one report from 1953. Yanda...
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    Niger-Congo languages spoken in Burkina Faso and Mali. Intelligibility between Samo varieties is low. The following have been coded as separate languages: Matya...
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    Awa Society (category Dogon religion)
    the west. The Dogon word awa (not to be confused with the Arabic name for Eve, Hawa/Awa) comes from the Dogon's Sacred language of Sigi so of Sangha, Mali...
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