Dogon languages

Dogon
Geographic
distribution		Dogon country, Mali (mainly Bandiagara Region)
EthnicityDogon people
Linguistic classificationNiger-Congo?
  • Dogon
Subdivisions
Language codes
Glottologdogo1299
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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