Sisaala language

Sisaala
	Sissala
Region	Ghana, Burkina
Native speakers	(180,000 cited 1991–2003)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Gur Southern Gurunsi Western Sisaala; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously:; ssl – Western Sisaala; sil – Tumulung Sisaala; sld – Burkina Sissala; sig – Paasaal
Glottolog	sisa1248[2]

Sisaala (Sissala) is a Gur language cluster spoken in Ghana near the town of Tumu[3] and in the neighbouring republic of Burkina Faso. Western Sisaala is intermediate between Burkina and Tumulung Sisaala.

Paasaal is similar and also called (Southern) Sisaala.

References

Western Sisaala at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Tumulung Sisaala at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Burkina Sissala at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Paasaal at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Sisaala". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Edited by M.E.Kropp Dakubu, The Languages of Ghana, Kegan Paul International, 1988.

Sisaala–English English–Sisaala Dictionary (1975). Ghana Institute of Linguistics, 231 pp. ISBN 9964-92-298-1. [Western Sisaala]

External links

A grammatical sketch of Isaalo (Western Sisaala)

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[e18-1] Western Sisaala at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Tumulung Sisaala at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Burkina Sissala at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Paasaal at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Sisaala". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[3] Edited by M.E.Kropp Dakubu, The Languages of Ghana, Kegan Paul International, 1988.