Kusaal language
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Name (Latin)
Kusaal language
Other forms of name
Koussassé language
Kusa language
Kusae language
Kusal language
Kusale language
Kusasi language
nne Kussassi language
See Also From tracing topical name
Oti-Volta languages
See Also From tracing place name
Burkina Faso
Ghana
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q35708
Library of congress:
sh 85073501
Sources of Information
- Ruhlen:p. 305 (Kusaal)
- Ethnologue, 1992:p. 269 (Africa, Ghana: Kusaal, Eastern; Kusale, Kusasi; Kusasi are the people, Kusaal is the language) p. 172 (Africa, Burkina Faso: Kusaal, Western; Kusale, Kusasi, Koussassé)
- Briticanna.com website, June 23, 2006(Oti-Volta languages; the largest languages in the Oti-Volta group include Moore, the principal language of eastern Burkina Faso; Gurma; Gurenne; Dagbani, the principal language of northern Ghana; and Dagaari, spoken in northwestern Ghana; among the Grusi languages, Kabiye is widely spoken as a second language in northern Togo)
Wikipedia description:
Kusaal is a Gur language spoken primarily in northern eastern Ghana, and Burkina Faso. It is spoken by about 121,000 people and takes its name from the Kusaal people, or Kusasi. There is a distinctive dialect division between Agole, to the East of the Volta River, and Toende, to the West. Agole has more speakers. The 6-district capital; Bawku West with Zebilla as capital (mainly inhabited by the speakers of Atoende Kusaal) and the rest; Binduri, Bawku, Tempane, Garu and Pusiga districts mostly Agole dialect speakers. The complete Bible translation is in the Agole dialect.
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