Mombo Dogon is a
Dogon language
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 family. There are about 600,000 speakers of its dozen languages. They are tonal languages, a ...
spoken in
Mali
Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali ...
. Helabo and Miambo are dialects.
Until c. 2005
Ampari was considered a dialect. However, while Ampari understand Mombo, this appears to be because they visit the area yearly, and the Mombo cannot understand Ampari.
In the village of Kema, the Mombo language is called ''Ambaleeŋge''. It has been called ''Ejenge Dõ (Edyenge Dom, Idyoli Donge)'' or ''Kolum So'' in the literature. ''Ejenge Dõ'' is the Mombo word for 'Dogon language', from ''Éjé'' 'Dogon person'. ''Kolum So'' is the name used by the
Donno So
Escarpment Dogon is a continuum of Dogon dialects of the Bandiagara Escarpment, including the standard language. There are three principal dialects:
*Toro So ''Tɔrɔ sɔɔ'', called ''Bomu Tegu'' in the plains languages and also known as ''Dɔ ...
to the east. It means 'sunset dialects', and refers to the westernmost Dogon varieties, Mombo and Ampari. The Fulani name is ''Piniari (Pignari)''.
References
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External links
Mombo wordlist(Dendo and Blench, 2005)
{{Dogon topics, state=collapsed
Dogon languages
Languages of Mali