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Countries

Burkina Faso

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 14 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Interesting Facts

Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.

Similar To

Dagbani Language

Derived From

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 8 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 5 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 6 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 2 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks

Rank: 10 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Kia ora

Thank You

Laafi bala

How Are You?

Laafi beme ?

Good Night

Ne y yungo

Good Evening

ne y zabre

Good Afternoon

Kia ora

Good Morning

Ne y yibeogo

Please

gafare

Sorry

gafare

Bye

Wend na kon-d nindaare

I Love You

Kei te aroha au ki a koe

Excuse Me

Y gafare

Dialects

Dialect 1

Ouapadoupou

Where They Speak

Burkina Faso

How Many People Speak

7,000,000.00

Rank: 41 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Saremde

Where They Speak

Burkina Faso

How Many People Speak

7,000,000.00

Rank: 42 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Taolende

Where They Speak

Burkina Faso

How Many People Speak

7,000,000.00

Rank: 33 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 8 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

7.60 million

Rank: 62 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.11 %

Rank: 56 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

7.60 million

Rank: 55 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

5.00 million

Rank: 51 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

Mosse

Alternative Names

Mossi, Mòoré, Mooré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi, Mòoré, Moré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi

French Name

moré

German Name

Mossi-Sprache

Pronunciation

[mɔ̀ːsì]

Ethnicity

Mossi

History

Origin

11th Century AD

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Western Sudanic

Branch

Gur (Voltaic)

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Mossi

Language Position

Rank: 34 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Mossi Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

No data Available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mos

ISO 639 2/B

mos

ISO 639 3

mos

ISO 639 6

mos

Glottocode

moss1236

Linguasphere

No data Available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Language Morphological Typology

Know Alphabets in Mossi

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Mossi Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Mossi Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Mossi. Mossi phonology gives Mossi vowels and Mossi consonants. There are 8 vowels and 16 consonants in Mossi language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Mossi is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Mossi language is given in detail in this section.

All Mossi countries

Want to explore all Mossi countries? About Mossi language serves you with all Mossi Speaking Countries. Countries that use Mossi as official language are called as Mossi countries.

Countries that use Mossi as their National Language are: Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Mossi as second language are: Mossi is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Mossi greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Mossi Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Mossi language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Mossi language.Learn Mossi greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: Kia ora
Thank you: Laafi bala
Good Morning: Ne y yibeogo
Good Evening: ne y zabre
Good Afternoon: Kia ora

All Mossi Language Codes

Get to know all Mossi language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Mossi Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.