Dogosé, or Doghose, is a
Gur language
The Gur languages, also known as Central Gur or Mabia, belong to the Niger–Congo languages. They are spoken in the Sahelian and savanna regions of West Africa, namely: in most areas of Burkina Faso, and in south-central Mali, northeastern ...
of
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the ...
.
There are multiple spellings of this name, due to the difficulties of spelling the second consonant, . ''Dogosé'' is currently preferred, but traditional ''Doghose'' is found in much of the literature. Rarer spellings are ''(Doro) Doghosié, Dokhosié, Dorhossié, Dorhosye, Dorosie, Dorossé'' and, with a different suffix, ''Dokhobe, Dorobé.''
Dialect, which are close, are ''Klamaasise, Mesise, Lutise, Gbeyãse, Sukurase, Gbogorose.''
References
Gur languages
Languages of Burkina Faso
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