| Mooré Mòoré |
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| Spoken in: | Burkina Faso, Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Togo | |
| Total speakers: | 5,036,700 | |
| Language family: | Niger-Congo Atlantic-Congo Volta-Congo Gur Central Oti-Volta Mooré |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | mos | |
| ISO 639-3: | mos | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
More language (also Mòoré, Mooré, Moré, Moshi, Mossi, Moore or More) is a tonal language spoken primarily in Burkina Faso by the Mossi (or Moshe). It is spoken by approximately 5 million people in the country plus 50,000 others in Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Mali and Togo. Dialects of the language include Saremdé, Taolendé, Yaadré, Ouagadougou, Yaande, Zaore and Yana. It is classified as follows: Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, North, Gur, Central, Northern, Oti-Volta, Western, Northwest. More is the language of the Mossi people (Moaaga in singular). Second-language speakership of More in Burkina Faso is probably significant.
External links
- Phrasebook for the More language from Wikitravel
- Mooré Primer
- Ethnologue report on Moore
- PanAfrican L10n wiki page on Moore
