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Mooré
More, Mossi
Mòoré
Native to
Burkina Faso
Benin
Ivory Coast
Ghana
Mali
Togo
Niger
Senegal
Ethnicity
Mossi
Native speakers
12 million (2012–2022)
Language family
Niger–Congo
Atlantic–Congo
Volta-Congo
Savannas
Gur
Northern Gur
Oti–Volta
Western Oti-Volta
Northwestern
Mooré
Writing system
Latin
Mooré alphabet
Minim Dag Noore
Official status
Official language in
Burkina Faso
Language codes
ISO 639-2
mos
ISO 639-3
mos
Glottolog
moss1236
Majority areas of Mooré speakers (
see also on a map of Burkina Faso
Person
Moaaga
People
Mosse
Language
Mòoré
Country
Moogho
A Mooré speaker speaking Mooré and Dioula, recorded in
Taiwan
Video 1 min:23 sec, 2018.
Mooré
is a
Gur language
of the
Oti–Volta
branch and one of
four official languages
of
Burkina Faso
. It is the language of the
Mossi people
, spoken by approximately 6.46 million people in Burkina Faso,
Ghana
Ivory Coast
Benin
Niger
Mali
Togo
, and
Senegal
as a
native language
, but with many more
L2 speakers
. Mooré is spoken as a first or second language by over 50% of the Burkinabé population and is the main language in the capital city of
Ouagadougou
It is closely related to
Frafra
, and less related to
Dagbani
The Lord's Prayer
in Mooré translation (
Church of the Pater Noster
Blackboard with text in Mooré, including use of the letter Ʋ (
v with hook
Phonology
edit
The Mooré language consists of the following sounds:
full citation needed
Consonants
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Mooré consonant phonemes
Labial
Alveolar
Postalveolar
palatal
Velar
Glottal
Nasal
Stop
voiceless
voiced
Fricative
voiceless
voiced
Liquid
Approximant
Remark:
The semivowel
⟨y⟩
is pronounced
(palatal nasal) in front of nasal vowels.
Vowels
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Front
Central
Back
Close
close
near-close
Close-mid
Open
Notes:
All vowels (other than
and
) can also be nasalized.
All vowels (oral and nasal) can be short or long.
Other linguists include the vowels
and
; here, they are analysed as diphthongs, (
is considered to be ea and
is considered to be oa).
Orthography
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In
Burkina Faso
, the Mooré alphabet uses the letters specified in the national Burkinabé alphabet. It can also be written with the newly-devised
Goulsse alphabet
Burkinabé Mooré alphabet
Phonetic values
See also
edit
Languages of Burkina Faso
References
edit
Mooré
at
Ethnologue
(27th ed., 2024)
"Proposal to encode the Minim Dag Noore script in the UCS"
(PDF)
unicode.org
"More, language of the Mossi tribe; phrase book"
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
School, Live Lingua-Online Language.
"FSI More(Mossi) Basic Language Course"
Live Lingua
Cf. Kabore (1985) : (p.44) for the consonants, (p.85-86) for the vowels.
External links
edit
Mooré edition
of
Wikipedia
, the free encyclopedia
PanAfrican L10n wiki page on Moore
Database of audio recordings in Mòoré - basic Catholic prayers
Learning materials
edit
Mooré
at Wikipedia's
sister projects
Media
from Commons
Phrasebook
from Wikivoyage
Data
from Wikidata
Protestant Mission, Assemblies of God.
More (Language of the Mossi Tribe) Phrase Book
. Ouagadougou, Upper Volta: World Digital Library.
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