Sisaala language

Spoken in

• Niger - Congo Atlantic - Congo Volta - Congo north Gur centrally south Gurunsi west Sisaala ( Tumulung ) Sisaala ( West), Sisaala

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Sil ( Tumulung ), ssl ( West), sld ( Burkina Faso)

Sisaala ( proper name Sısaalı ) is the language of Sisaala that traditionally settle in Ghana and Burkina Faso.

In francophone Burkina Faso, the name Sissala, Anglophone Ghana used the spelling Sisaala. The language belongs to the western branch of the Gurunsi languages ​​that constitute a subunit of the Gur languages ​​within the family of the Niger - Congo languages ​​.

The settlement area of Sisaala in Ghana is located in the north central part in the Tumu District and Lambusie while the Burkinabe Sisaala settled in 26 villages of the province Sissili, between its center and the Ghanaian Léo Hamale. There are three very distinct dialect groups: the largest is Sisaala Tumulung in Ghana with about 90,000 speakers, followed Westsisaala with about 30,000 speakers. The Sisaalasprecher in Burkina Faso are estimated at 10,000.

The predominantly their traditional beliefs attached Sisaala living mainly as farmers, millet, corn, rice, or yams grow. They live in mud huts square, which are connected to each other by walls. Her musical instruments include xylophones, drums and flutes, griots are responsible for the oral transmission of knowledge. In the past, Sisaala were affected by the slave trade.