The Tebul language, also known as ''Tebul Ure'', 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 ...
by the ''Tebul U'' (Tebul people). It was first reported under this name online by
Roger Blench
Roger Marsh Blench (born August 1, 1953) is a British linguist, ethnomusicologist and development anthropologist. He has an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and is based in Cambridge, England. He researches, publishes, and works ...
,
who erroneously reported that it appears to be the same as a language called ''Oru Yille'' in the literature. This mistaken name instead means 'two words' in the Tebul language.
The language is divergent within Dogon and may constitute its own branch of that family, though it shows some affinities with the western languages.
The Tebul people also use 'village sign',
Tebul Sign Language
Tebul Sign Language is a village sign language of the village of Uluban in the Dogon region of Mali, among speakers of Tebul Dogon.
See also
*Bamako Sign Language
Bamako Sign Language, also known as Malian Sign Language, or LaSiMa (''Langue ...
, due to a high incidence of deafness.
References
Sources
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*Blench, Dendo, & Douyon, 2005 (ms)
Tebul Ure, a language of the Dogon group in Northern Mali and its affinities*
External links
Tebul Ure wordlist(Dendo and Blench, 2005)
Dogon languages
Languages of Mali
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