page_title: Dagaare language
hierarchical_section_title: Dagaare language
caption_attribution_description: English: Languages of Burkina Faso
context_page_description: Dagaare is the maternal language of the Dagaaba people in Ghana and Burkina Faso. It has been described as a dialect continuum that also includes Waale and Birifor.
  Ethnologue divides Dagaare into three languages:
  Southern/Central Dagaare language, which is spoken mainly in Ghana
  Northern Dagara language, which is spoken mainly in Burkina Faso
  Dagaari Dioula, which is spoken mainly in Burkina Faso, and has significant influence from the genetically unrelated Dioula language
context_section_description: Dagaare is the maternal language of the Dagaaba people in Ghana and Burkina Faso. It has been described as a dialect continuum that also includes Waale and Birifor.
  Ethnologue divides Dagaare into three languages:
  Southern/Central Dagaare language, which is spoken mainly in Ghana
  Northern Dagara language, which is spoken mainly in Burkina Faso
  Dagaari Dioula, which is spoken mainly in Burkina Faso, and has significant influence from the genetically unrelated Dioula language
caption: Majority areas of Northern Dagara speakers, in red, on a map of Burkina Faso.
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