Kus

Also Known As: Kusaal Language,Kusasi,Kusale,Kusaal,Koussassé Description: 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..... full article at Wikipedia Location of Kusaal language Speakers http://llmap.org/languages/kus/static_map.png?width=400&height=300&kilroywashere=.png Rosetta Document Collection Orthography: 1 (download) (browse)

Overview Main Country: Ghana Spoken In: Regions: Africa ISO 639-3 Code: kus Classification Taxonomy All Languages   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                         Kusaal language