Vyemo language

Spoken in

Niger - Congo

  • Atlantic - Congo Savannah languages

Vig

The language Viemo (ISO 639-3: vig, also vige, Vigue and vigye called ) is a Gursprache and is within the Gur languages ​​, the only surviving representative of the Viemo languages ​​within the Niger -Congo language family.

The language is of a total of 8,000 people in Burkina Faso, spoken in the province Houet, about 40 kilometers southeast of Bobo Dioulasso in the department Karankasso - Vigue.

The speakers of the language are mostly bilingual in French the official language. Previously, however, the Diula had at the Viemo speakers the function of a national language ..

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