Tusya language

Tusya, also spelled Tusiã, Tusian, Toussian and also known as Wín, is a language or languages of Burkina Faso that is of uncertain affiliation within Niger-Congo. It was formerly linked with the Gur languages.

Tusya
Wín
Native toBurkina Faso
Native speakers
(39,000 cited 1995)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
wib – Southern
tsp – Northern
Glottologtusi1238[2]

Dialects

There are two dialects.[3]

  • Tir (North Tusian)
  • Win (South Tusian)

The northern and southern dialects have difficulty understanding each other.

The northern dialect is spoken to the north, east, and south of Orodara. The southern dialect is spoken in and around Toussiana.[4]

Notes
  1. Southern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Northern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tusia". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Güldemann, Tom (2018). "Historical linguistics and genealogical language classification in Africa". In Güldemann, Tom (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of Africa. The World of Linguistics series. 11. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 58–444. doi:10.1515/9783110421668-002. ISBN 978-3-11-042606-9.
  4. "Burkina Faso". Ethnologue, 22nd edition. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
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