Naŋa dama, also known as Naŋa tegu, is a
Dogon language 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. Mal ...
that is only known from one report from 1953. Roger Blench reports that its nearest relative is the recently described
Walo–Kumbe Dogon, "with which it shares both lexicon and the feature that many nouns have a final -m." Hochstetler thinks they may be the same language. It may be close to
Yanda Dogon (Blench) or
Jamsai tegu (Hochstetler).
References
Further reading
* Bertho, J. 1953. "La place des dialectes Dogon (dogo) de la falaise de Bandiagara parmi les autres groupes linguistiques de la zone soudanaise". In ''Bulletin de l’Institut Français de l’ Afrique Noire.'' Vol. XV. Dakar, pp. 405–441
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Dogon languages
Languages of Mali