Vagla language

Vagla
Region	Ghana
Native speakers	14,000 (2003)[1]; (may include speakers of Siti)
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Gur Southern Gurunsi Western Vagla; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	vag
Glottolog	vagl1239 Vagla[2]

Vagla is a Gurunsi (Gur) language of Ghana with about 14,000 speakers. It is spoken in a number of communities around the west of Northern Region of Ghana. Such communities includes:Bole (originally called "Bell /b33l/),Sawla,Tuna,Soma,Gentilpe,Nakwabi and a few more. The people who speak this language are known as Vaglas, one of the indigenous tribes around that part of the Northern Region, which were brought under the Gonja local administration system "Gonjaland" by British Colonial Rulers under their Centralised System of Governance.

References

Vagla at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Vagla". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[e18-1] Vagla at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

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