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		Life for the Senufo, who are farmers by trade, revolves around planting and harvesting crops by hand.
		Almost all Senufo follow African traditional religions or Islam, and the few Christians among them are mocked for their faith.
		One Senufo group with the greatest need for the gospel is the Western Karaboro.
	ime.imb.org /wpim/senufo.htm (238 words)

	Senufo languages at AllExperts
		15 languages spoken by the Senufo in the north of CÃ´te d'Ivoire, the southeast of Mali and the southwest of Burkina Faso.
		The Senufo languages are generally considered a branch of the Gur sub-family of Niger-Congo languages.
		Garber (1987) estimates the total number of Senufos at some 1.5 million; the Ethnologue, based on various population estimates, counts 2.7 million.The Senufo languages are bounded to the west by Mande languages, to the south by Kwa languages, and to the north and east by Gur languages.
	en.allexperts.com /e/s/se/senufo_languages.htm (824 words)

	Nafaanra language - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It is somewhat of an outlier in the Senufo language group, with the geographically closest relatives, the Southern Senufo Tagwana-Djimini languages, approximately 200 kilometres to the west, on the other side of Comoué National Park.
		Nafaanra is bordered by Kulango languages to the west, while Deg (a Gur language) and Gonja (Kwa) are found to the north and east.
		Southeast and south of Nafaanra and Ligbi, the Akan language Abron (or Bron, Brong) is spoken.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /nafaanra_language.htm (2659 words)

	Niger-congo Languages
		Niger-Congo languages are known for their system of noun classification, traces of which can be found in every branch of the family.
		- The Yoruba and Igbo languages, spoken in Nigeria.
		Senufo has been placed traditionally within Gur, but is now usually considered an early off-shoot from Volta-Congo.
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Niger-Congo_languages (657 words)

	Senufo languages - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Senufo languages are generally considered a branch of the Gur sub-family of Niger-Congo languages.
		The Senufo languages are like Gur languages in that they have a suffixal noun class system and that verbs are marked for aspect.
		Like Mande languages, the Senufo languages have a Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) constituent order, rather than the SVO order which is more common in Gur and in Niger-Congo as a whole.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Senufo (767 words)

	Gur languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Gur languages belong to the Niger-Congo languages.
		A common property of Gur languages is the verbal aspect marking.
		Most Gur languages have a two tone downstep system, but the tonal system of the Senufo subgroup is mostly analysed as a three level tone system (High, Mid, Low).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gur_languages (298 words)

	Senufo languages -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Senufo languages are generally considered a branch of the (A group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana) Gur sub-family of (Click link for more info and facts about Niger-Congo languages) Niger-Congo languages.
		The Senufo languages are bounded to the west by (Click link for more info and facts about Mande languages) Mande languages, to the south by (Click link for more info and facts about Kwa languages) Kwa languages, and to the north and east by Gur languages.
		The Senufo languages are like Gur languages in that they have a suffixal (Click link for more info and facts about noun class) noun class system and that verbs are marked for aspect.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/S/Se/Senufo_languages.htm (902 words)

	Senufo
		The Senufo (the Francophone spelling Senoufo is commonly used) are an ethnolinguistic group comprised of diverse subgroups living in an area spanning from southern Mali and the extreme western corner of Burkina Faso to Katiola in Côte d'Ivoire.
		Korhogo, an ancient town in northern Côte d'Ivoire dating from the 13th century, is the capital of the Senufo people.
		Garber (1987) estimates the total number of Senufos at some 1.5 million; the Ethnologue (15th edition), based on various population estimates, counts 2.7 million.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/se/Senufo.htm (144 words)

	Gur languages
		The Gur languages belong to the Niger-Congo languages.
		The about 20 Senufo languages are part of the Gur language group.
		Koelle[?] first mentions 1854 twelve Gur languages in his list (Polyglotta Africana) which represent ten languages in modern classification.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/gu/Gur_languages.html (78 words)

	Nafaanra language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nafaanra (sometimes written Nafaara, pronounced [Nafaãra]) is a Senufo language spoken in northwest Ghana, along the border with Cote d'Ivoire, east of Bondouko.
		It is somewhat of an outlier in the Senufo language group, with the geographically closest relatives, the Southern Senufo Tagwana-Djimini languages, approximately 200 kilometres to the west, on the other side of Comoé National Park.
		Westermann in his classification of West-African languages (1970 [1952]:56) also grouped Nafaanra with Senufo, apparently based on the word list found in Rapp (1933).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nafaanra_language (2784 words)

	Encyclopedia: Bantu
		He proposed the hypothesis that a vast number of languages spread across central, southern, eastern, and even western Africa shared so many characteristics that they must be part of a single language group.
		The most important differences were the strongly deviating languages, although both are dialects of Bantu language, and the different settlement types and relationships.
		In Vodun (Voodoo), Lemba is a loa worshipped in Brazil and Haiti.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bantu (4096 words)

	Sucite language - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Sucite is a Senufo language spoken in southwestern Burkina Faso by approximately 35 000 people.
		Sucite is a tonal language with three surface tone levels: High, Mid, and Low.
		Like the other Senufo languages, Sucite employs a noun class system of five genders: three pairings of singular/plural classes and two mass/collective classes.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /sucite_language.htm (301 words)

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		Is one of the languages spoken in Africa.
		Is a Polynesian language, belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian languages.
		Or Gilyak (ethnonym: Nivxi) is a language spoken in Outer Manchuria, in the basin of the Amgun, a tributary of the Amur, along the lower reaches of the Amur and on the northern half of Sakhalin.
	www.aboutlanguageschools.com /language/list/list_n.asp (2639 words)

	Kulango-Dialekte
		Its position within the Senufo group is special insofar as it forms a Senufo island surrounded by other Gur and Mande languages, for example by Curama (Turka), Cerma (Kirma, Gouin), Win (Tusian), Tyefo, Dyula and Dogoso.
		Even if Karaboro as a unity is considered to form the Northeastern brunch of Senufo, some preliminary data gathered with a speaker of Western Karaboro shows that this variety is, in some domains of the language, more related to the Northwestern Senufo languages spoken in Southern Mali than to its closest neighbour Eastern Karaboro.
		The project is part of and continuation of the research focus on Gur languages at the chair of African Linguistics I at the University of Bayreuth.
	www.uni-bayreuth.de /departments/afrikanistik/1/karaboro/karaboro.html (457 words)

	Senufo languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		15 languages spoken by the Senufo in the north of Côte d'Ivoire, the southeast of Mali and the southwest of Burkina Faso.
		Garber (1987) estimates the total number of Senufos at some 1.5 million; the Ethnologue, based on various population estimates, counts 2.7 million.
		The Senufo languages are bounded to the west by Mande languages, to the south by Kwa languages, and to the north and east by Gur languages.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Senufo_languages (752 words)

	Senufo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Senufo (the francophone spelling Senoufo is commonly used) are an ethnolinguistic group comprised of diverse subgroups living in an area spanning from southern Mali and the extreme western corner of Burkina Faso to Katiola in Côte d'Ivoire.
		Korhogo, an ancient town in northern Côte d'Ivoire dating from the 13th century, is the capital of the Senufo people.
		The Senufo are predominantly an agricultural people cultivating millet, yams, peanut, and rice.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Senufo (173 words)

	Niger-Congo languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Niger-Congo languages constitute one of the world's major language families, and Africa's largest in terms of geographical area, number of speakers, and number of distinct languages.
		Just before these articles were collected in final book form (The Languages of Africa) in 1963, he amended his classification by adding Kordofanian as a branch co-ordinate with Niger-Congo as a whole; consequently, the family was renamed Niger-Kordofanian.
		Mande: spoken in West Africa; includes Bambara, the main language spoken in Mali, as well as, a language spoken mainly in Mali but also in Senegal and Mauritania.
	lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Niger-Congo_languages (626 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ethnic groups of Africa
		They are identified by their recognition of a common culture, language, religion, and history.
		There are an estimated 900 to 1,500 different languages, but many distinct political units share a common or similar language (as among the Yoruba, Hausa, and Swahili-speaking peoples).
		The Malagasy language, spoken by 98 percent of the island's population, is classified as Austronesian.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ethnic-groups-of-Africa (2039 words)

	What fate awaits the world’s languages? / 1999/4 / Archive / Media Development / Publicaciones / Casa - WACC site
		Or: a language is the dialect of the elites.
		Languages are threatened - we may have only 10% of the languages left (= unthreatened) in a 100 years’ time.
		The State language should also be taught as a subject on a regular basis preferably by bilingual teachers who have a good understanding of the children’s cultural and linguistic background.
	www.wacc.org.uk /es/layout/set/print/content/view/full/1222 (2524 words)

	People and Culture of Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire)
		The population of the Ivory Coast is approx 16,400,000 (est.
		There are more than 60 ethnic groups, the key ones being the Baoulé in the center, the Agri in the east, the Senufo in the north, the Dioula in the northwest and west, the Bété in the center-west and the Dan-Yacouba in the west.
		The Senufo are made up of a number of diverse subgroups who migrated into their current location from the north during the 15th and 16th centuries.
	www.africaguide.com /country/ivoryc/culture.htm (963 words)

	The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles
		The Central Senufo are a cultural mixture of the Samogho, Lobi, Turka, Toussian, and Bobo-Dyula tribes.
		One important aspect of Senufo society is its concept of "community." The Senufo think of themselves as one group, with all of their ideas pointing in the same direction.
		A Senufo is always aware of his place in the society as it relates to others in the group.
	www.global12project.com /2004/profiles/clusters/8031.html (913 words)

	Languages : Niger-Congo Family
		Migrations took the languages to eastern and southern Africa.
		The southern languages have tones which are used partially for meaning but mostly for grammar.
		Most of the Niger-Congo languages have prefixes and suffixes to qualify nouns and verbs as well as words that agree with them.
	www.krysstal.com /langfams_nigercongo.html (389 words)

	gur languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The about 20 Senufo languages are part of the Gur language group.
		Koelle first mentions twelve Gur languages in his 1854 list (Polyglotta Africana), which represent ten languages in modern classification.
		and an number of languages which are not subclassified further.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Gur_languages.html (141 words)

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		Tuareg (speaking two Tamacheq languages) 418,000, 60% of whom are Bella, the former slaves of the Tukulor.
		For years there were only four Protestant missions — GMU in the centre among the Bambara, CMA in the east among the Dogon, Bobo, Minianka and Senufo, UWM in the west among the Malinke and Evangelical Baptists in the north among the Tuareg and Songhai.
		At least 12 languages may need translation or evaluation teams, and work is in progress in 15.
	www.gmi.org /ow/country/mali/owtext.html (1389 words)

	Senufo - PanAfriL10n (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The term "Senufo" refers both to a language (Senari) and a branch of Gur (Voltaic) that includes four distinct languages: Palaka, Dymini-Tagwana, Central Senufo (Senari), and Northern Senufo (including the dialects of Suppire and Minianka) (Voegelin and Voegelin 1977).
		Senari, which means "the (Senufo) language," also stands for the language spoken in northern Côte d'Ivoire and a small part of Mali.
		Senufo languages in Côte d'Ivoire use the official orthography developed for all languages in that country.
	www.panafril10n.org /wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/Senufo (498 words)

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		Beyond these exceptions, European languages are spoken by the vast majority of the population in North and South America, and are official in all nations in the hemisphere.
		It states in the preamble that the French language is the instrument by which the people have articulated their identity, and that the people of the province wish to see the quality and influence of the French language assured.
		It is the language of the legislature, of the courts, and of all statutes.
	www.languageandlaw.org /LANGRTS.HTM (10611 words)

	Karaboro languages - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Karaboro, some neighbouring languages and the Senufo language area.
		The Karaboro languages are spoken in Burkina Faso by approximately 65 000 people (SIL 1995/1991).
		They belong to the Senufo subfamily, but are separated from other Senufo languages by a small band of unrelated languages.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Karaboro_languages (135 words)

	Niger-Congo languages -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A common property of many Niger-Congo languages is the use of a (Click link for more info and facts about noun class) noun class system.
		(A family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent) Bantu: a very large group, includes (The most widely spoken Bantu languages; the official language of Kenya and Tanzania and widely used as a lingua franca in east and central Africa) Swahili ((A Bantu language) Kiswahili).
		The (A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria) Yoruba and (A member of the largest ethnic group in southeastern Nigeria) Igbo languages, spoken in (A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; gained independence from Britain in 1960; most populous African country) Nigeria.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/ni/niger-congo_languages1.htm (685 words)

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