Sembla language
| Sembla | |
|---|---|
| Seenku | |
| Region | Burkina Faso |
Native speakers | 16,000 (2009)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sos |
| Glottolog | seek1238 |
Sembla, Sambla,or Seenku, is a Western Mande language within the Samogo group of Burkina Faso. The northern dialect called Timiku[2] and the southern one called Gbeneku[3] are easily intelligible.
The language is also known as Samogho and "Southern Samo", which is also the name of one of the Samo languages.
This language also has a complex speech replacement system, which is implemented on the Sambla balafon, where the words of the Sambla language are translated into music, similar to the more famous talking drum communication.[4]
Further reading
[edit]- McPherson, Laura (2020). "Seenku". Illustrations of the IPA. Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 50 (2): 220–239. doi:10.1017/S0025100318000312, with supplementary sound recordings.
- McPherson, Laura. "A Grammar of Seenku". Mouton Grammar Library (83). De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783110765021. ISBN 978-3-11-061295-0.
- McPherson, Laura (2017). "The morphosyntax of adjectives in Seenku". Mandenkan (57): 25–48. doi:10.4000/mandenkan.1041.
- McPherson, Laura (2017). "Multiple feature affixation in Seenku plural formation". Morpholog (27): 217–252. doi:10.1007/s11525-017-9300-4).
- Prost, André (1971). Éléments de sembla: phonologie, grammaire, lexique (Haute Volta: groupe mandé) (in French). Lyon: Afrique et Langage.
References
[edit]- ^ Sembla at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ spoken around Timi, on modern maps Karankasso
- ^ spoken around Gbene, on modern maps Bouende
- ^ McPherson, Laura (2018-06-18). "Musical surrogate languages in the documentation of complex tone: The case of the Sambla balafon". 6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018). ISCA. pp. 62–66. doi:10.21437/tal.2018-13. S2CID 52240848.
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