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Dioula

Mande language spoken in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and Mali
Class type of: Mande Q32706

Facts

9 properties
Instance of
language, modern language[5]
Country
Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali[2][3][4]
Subclass of
Mande[6]
Different from
Jola[10]
Ethnologue language status
3 Wider Communication[16]
Indigenous to
Guiriko, Houet Province, Kossi Province, Mouhoun, Ivory Coast[11][12][13][14][15]
Maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Intangible Cultural Heritage[17]
Number of speakers, writers, or signers
+2700000[9]
Writing system
Latin script, Latin alphabet[7][8]
🏷️ Also known as
en dyu en Jula language en Dyula language en Dyula en Dioula en Dioula, Dyula en Dioula language ar لغة ديولية cs Djula de Jula de Dyula es diula fa زبان دیولا fi djulan kieli fr dyu he דיולה hi द्यूला भाषा id bahasa Dyula it dyula it jula
🔖 Identifiers · 22
ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID
294918604
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300388231
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/Dyula-language
Ethnologue.com language code
dyu
Exact match
publications.europa.eu
Freebase ID
/m/027j47k
GOST 7.75–97 code
диу 182
Glottolog code
dyul1238
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
1972076
IETF language tag
dyu
ISO 639-2 code
dyu
ISO 639-3 code
dyu
Show all 22 identifiers +10
IdRef ID
028152360
KBpedia ID
DyulaLanguage
LC and MARC vocabularies ID
languages/dyu, iso639-2/dyu
Lingua Libre ID
Russia
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007567955005171
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
706302
POSIX locale identifier
dyu
SocioMap ID
SM250216
Topic's main category
Category:Dyula language
WALS lect code
dyu

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🔗 Connections
← Language used 10
Ivory Coast, Mali, Burkina Faso, Bankui, Guiriko, Tannounyan, Houet Province, Kossi Province +2 more
Indigenous to 5
Ivory Coast, Guiriko, Houet Province, Kossi Province, Mouhoun
← Languages spoken, written or signed 5
Ibrahim Traoré, Alpha Blondy, Tiken Jah Fakoly, Mariam Lamizana, Victor Démé
← Original language of film or TV show 4
Night of the Kings, Tasuma, Afro@Digital, The Place in Between
Country 3
Ivory Coast, Mali, Burkina Faso
Instance of 2
language, modern language
← Category combines topics 2
Category:Dyula lemmas, Category:Dyula nouns
← Language of work or name 2
Arabic script, jw.org
← Official language 2
Burkina Faso, Kong Empire
Different from 1
Jola
Lingua Libre ID 1
Russia
Subclass of 1
Mande
Topic's main category 1
Category:Dyula language
Writing system 1
Latin script
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Dyula language
← Different from 1
Jola
← Has use 1
N’ko
← Native language 1
Dyula people
← Writing language 1
Bernadette Sanou Dao
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Summary

Dioula is a language[1].

Related Entities

Alpha Blondy Burkina Faso Ibrahim Traoré Ivory Coast Mali Russia

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · Bischrob · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SocioMap ID → SM250216
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SocioMap ID: SM250216, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1788904550532"
  2. 25w ago · MarisDreshmanisBot bot · 2026-05-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Maintained by WikiProject → WikiProject Intangible Cultural Heritage
    Different from → Jola
    Country → Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||eo, hi, tr */ Add 3 multilingual descriptions extracted from Wikipedia article first sentences (universal multilingual maintenance — Q-walker v2.1)."
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