Kasena language

Spoken in

• Niger - Congo Volta - Congo North Volta - Congo Gur centrally south Gurunsi Kasem

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Kasem ( Kasɩm; well Kassem, Kasim ) is a West African language.

It is one of which must be an Gur Gurunsi languages, a subfamily of the Volta -Congo branch of the Niger - Congo languages ​​. Your speakers are (also Kasena ) called Kassena.

In Ghana, about 130,000 speakers of Kasem live. In Ghana, Kasem has the rank of an official literary language and is used in the central northern part of the Northern Region in Kassena - Nankana District.

In Burkina Faso talk about 120,000 people Kasem, mainly in the province of Nahouri in the cities Pô and Tiébélé.

Dialects of Kasem Kasem are East, West Kasem.

Grammar

The Kasem has eight noun classes, which make up to four generations. The following table lists each of the class mark is specified, which is also used as a pronoun.