The Karaboro languages are spoken in Burkina Faso by approximately 65,000 people (SIL 1995/1991). They belong to the
Senufo subfamily, but are separated from other Senufo languages by a small band of unrelated languages. Within Senufo they are thought to be most closely related to the
Senari languages
The Senari languages form a central dialect cluster of the Senufo languages. They are spoken in northern Ivory Coast, southern Mali and southwest Burkina Faso by more than a million Senufo. Three varieties can be distinguished,
* Cebaara (Tyebaa ...
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Footnotes
Bibliography
* Hook, A., R. Mills and E. Mills (1975). ''L'Enquête Dialectale Karabora'', Société Internationale de Linguistique and University of Ouagadougou.
* Mills, Elizabeth (1984) ''Senoufo phonology, discourse to syllabe (a prosodic approach)'' SIL publications in linguistics (ISSN 1040-0850), 72.
Languages of Burkina Faso
Senufo languages
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