Countries
Countries
Burkina Faso
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Total No. Of Countries
17
0
46
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National Language
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
Germany
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Regulated By
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Council for German Orthography
Interesting Facts
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
Similar To
Dagbani Language
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Derived From
-
Albanian Languages
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2626
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
810
0
32
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How Many Consonants
169
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Kia ora
hallo
Thank You
Laafi bala
Danke
How Are You?
Laafi beme ?
Wie geht es dir?
Good Night
Ne y yungo
gute Nacht
Good Evening
ne y zabre
guten Abend
Good Afternoon
Kia ora
guten Tag
Good Morning
Ne y yibeogo
guten Morgen
Please
gafare
bitte
Sorry
gafare
Verzeihung
Bye
Wend na kon-d nindaare
Tschüs
I Love You
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
Ich liebe dich
Excuse Me
Y gafare
Entschuldigung
Dialects
Dialect 1
Ouapadoupou
Swiss German
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Switzerland
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.004,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Saremde
Swabian German
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Germany
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.00820,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Taolende
Texas German
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Texas
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.006,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
828
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
7.60 million229.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.11 %1.39 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.60 million101.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million128.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Mosse
Deutsch
Alternative Names
Mossi, Mòoré, Mooré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi, Mòoré, Moré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi
Deutsch, Tedesco
French Name
moré
allemand
German Name
Mossi-Sprache
Deutsch
Pronunciation
[mɔ̀ːsì]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Ethnicity
Mossi
Germans
History
Origin
11th Century AD
6th Century AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Germanic
Branch
Gur (Voltaic)
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Mossi
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Language Position
379
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mossi Sign Language
Signed German
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
No data Available
de
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mos
deu
ISO 639 2/B
mos
ger
ISO 639 3
mos
deu
ISO 639 6
mos
deus
Glottocode
moss1236
high1287, uppe1397
Linguasphere
No data Available
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional, Synthetic