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Nafaanra is a Senufo language spoken in northwest Ghana, along the border with Ivory Coast, east of Bondouko. It is spoken
by approximately 61,000 people. Its speakers call themselves Nafana; others call them Banda or Mfantera. Like other Senufo
languages, Nafaanra is a tonal language. It is somewhat of an outlier in the Senufo language group, with the geographically
closest relatives, the Southern Senufo Tagwana–Djimini languages, approximately 200 kilometres to the west, on the other side
of Comoé National Park. The basic word order is subject–object–verb, similar to Latin and Japanese. Like other Niger–Congo
languages it has a noun class system where nouns are classified according to five different genders, which also affects pronouns,
adjectives and copulas. The phonology features a distinction between the length of vowels and whether they are oral or nasal.
There are also three distinct tones, a feature shared with the other Senufo languages. Nafaanra grammar features both tense
and aspect which are marked with particles. Numbers are mainly formed by adding cardinal numbers to the number 5 and by multiplying
the numbers 10, 20 and 100. |
Names (more)[br] Nafanreg[de] Nafaanra [en] Nafaanra [fr] Nafaanra [hr] Nafaanra jezik [no] Nafaanra [ru] Нафаанра [sv] Nafaanra [zh] 納凡拉語 |
Language type : Living
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