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Countries

Countries
Burkina Faso

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

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
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Alphabets
26 8

Phonology

How Many Vowels
8 5

How Many Consonants
16 6

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
3 2

Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks 10

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 41

Dialect 2
Saremde

Where They Speak
Burkina Faso

How Many People Speak
7,000,000.00 42

Dialect 3
Taolende

Where They Speak
Burkina Faso

How Many People Speak
7,000,000.00 33

Total No. Of Dialects
8 8

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
7.60 million 62

Speaking Population
0.11 % 56

Native Speakers
7.60 million 55

Second Language Speakers
5.00 million 51

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
37 34

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
-

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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.

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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.

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