Dyula language

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  • Niger - Congo languages Mande languages West Mande languages Central Mande languages Mandinka

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Dyu

Dyu

Diula (also Dyula or Jula ) (Code: dyu according to ISO 639 ) refers to a West African Mande language and is also used as a categorization of social groups in the north of Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso. The font is the font N'Ko.

Jula is not a popular name. This word formerly Muslim traders were distinguished from non-Muslim and agriculture driving Senufo live in the same area. In a series of Mandenkan languages ​​Diula means " merchant ". It is a foreign term for Mandenkan variants speaking dealers as the Bambara, or Mandinka and for their language.

The term was transformed from the French colonial period and was now widely extended in contrast to the ethnic groups in the south of Ivory Coast on Muslims in the north. This north-south contrast in the south was created a bogeyman, with the Diula in another conceptual change is a synonym for " foreigner" was.

A simplified version of the upcoming Malian Bambara mixed with influences of the Malinke and Maninka developed into a widespread lingua franca, which is also called Jula. The Mandenkan - mother tongue speakers of the Ivory Coast use this simplified form the derogatory term, Tagbusik -kan ' as they choose for their linguistic forms usually entirely different names, such as Konyakakan, Odiennekakan or Maukakan. The influx of millions of inhabitants of the Sahel for migrant labor in the Ivory Coast sponsored by the resulting need for a large-scale distribution of the lingua franca Jula. Many Burkinabe Diula learned during their migratory labor and spread them on their return to Burkina Faso in their homeland on. The traffic - Diula languages ​​spoken today in the Ivory Coast by 61 % of the population to varying degrees, making it by far the most popular language. Also in Burkina Faso understand about 35 % of the population Diula (mostly in the west and south of the country ).

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