Dogon languages

Dogon
Dogon
Ethnicity	Dogon people
Geographic; distribution	Dogon country, Mali (mainly Bandiagara Region)
Linguistic classification	Niger-Congo? Dogon;
Subdivisions	Plains Dogon; Escarpment; West Dogon (Budu); North Plateau; Naŋa–Walo (Yanda); Tebul Dogon; ? Ana Dogon;
Glottolog	dogo1299
	Map of the Dogon languages Bangime (possible language isolate) Plains Dogon – Jamsai, Toro Tegu, Western Plains (Togo Kan, Tengu Kan, Tomo Kan) Escarpment Dogon – Toro So, Tommo So, Donno So West Dogon – Duleri, Mombo, Ampari–Penange, Budu North Plateau Dogon – Bondum, Dogul Nanga languages – Nanga, Bankan Tey, Ben Tey, Yanda Tebul Dogon (+ Tebul Sign Language) Ana Dogon

The Dogon languages are a small closely related language family that is spoken by the Dogon people of Mali and may belong to the proposed Niger–Congo family. There are about 600,000 speakers of its dozen languages. They are tonal languages, and most, like Dogul, have two tones, but some, like Donno So, have three. Their basic word order is subject–object–verb.

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