Kusaal language (kus) - Revision history

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Also Known As: Kusaal Language,Kusasi,Kusale,Kusaal,Koussassé Des...
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<tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Kusaal Language,Kusasi,Kusale,Kusaal,Koussassé

<b>Description:</b>

Kusaal is a Gur language spoken primarily in northern Ghana. It is spoken by roughly 400,000 people and takes its name from the Kusaasi tribe, who form the majority of the population of the area in the far northeast of Ghana, between the Gambaga escarpment, the Red Volta, and the national borders with Togo and Burkina Faso. There are some villages of Kusaasi in Burkina and also a few speakers in Togo. Kusaal is closely related to Mampruli, the language of the Mamprussi, who live to the south, and to Dagbani. There is a major dialect division between Agole, to the east of the White Volta river, and Toende, to the West. Agole has more speakers, and the only large town of the district, Bawku, is in Agole. The New Testament translation is in the Agole dialect.
The language is a fairly typical representative of the "Western Oti-Volta" low-level grouping within Gur, which includes several of the more widely spoken languages of Northern Ghana, and also Moore, the largest African language of Burkina Faso (and the largest of all Gur languages, with millions of speakers). Like most others of this subgroup it has lost the complicated noun class agreement system still found in e.g. the more<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=2294052 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
<tr><td><h2>Location of Kusaal language Speakers</h2>
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<tr><td>Orthography:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_kus_ortho-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_kus_ortho-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
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<h2>Overview</h2>

<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/ghana Ghana]</td></tr>

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<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/africa Africa]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>kus</td></tr>

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<tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
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  [[Niger-Congo Group]]

    [[Atlantic-Congo Group]]

      [[Volta-Congo Group]]

        [[North Volta-Congo Group]]

          [[Gur North Group]]

            [[Central Gur Group]]

              [[Volta-Congo North Gur Northern Central Group]]

                [[Oti-Volta Group]]

                  [[Western Oti-Volta Group]]

                    [[Southeast Western Group]]

                      [[Kusaal Group]]

                        <b>[[Kusaal language]]</b>

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