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The Dagbani language:
Dagbani, the language of the Dagomba people, is a Gur language (Volta-Congo) spoken by approximately 800,000 speakers in Northern Ghana (Ghana Statistical Services 2002, Lewis 2009).
see Ethnologue report on Dagbani for full family tree
note: depicted here is a shea nut tree, Butyrospermum parkii (Dag. kpííŋà, tááŋà)
(See Blench 2000 for a dictionary of plant names in Dagbani)
As one of the 9 government-sponsored languages of Ghana (which includes Akan, Dagaare/Wale, Dagbani, Dangme, Ewe, Ga, Gonja, Kasem, Nzema), and the major language of the capital city of Ghana's Northern Region, Tamale, Dagbani is also spoken as a second language by members of neighboring ethnic groups (notably, Gonja) and migrants coming to the Tamale area from areas of Ghana or elsewhere in West Africa (e.g. Hausa).
Links:
WALS (World Atlas of Linguistic Structures) page for Dagbani
OLAC Resources in and about the Dagbani Language
http://www.africanlanguages.org/gur.html
CNRS/LLACAN Bibliography of Dagbani resources
Randolph Macon College summary of Dagomba/Nanumba culture
People:
Documents:
The Correlation between Aspect and Transitivity Alternation in Dagbani by Samuel Alhassan Issah (2011)
Signaling Politeness, Power and Solidarity through Terms of Address in Dagbanli by Nantogma Alhassan Salifu (2010)
A note on the typology of head-internal relativization by Ken Hiraiwa (2009, presentation at LDLT2)
Focus markers that link topic and comment by Anne Schwartz (2009) in proceedings of Workshop on Focus Marking Strategies and Focus Interpretation
Spectrographic analysis of Dagbani vowels by Abdul-Rahman Fusheini (n.d./~2009)
Information packaging in Dagbani by Samuel Alhassan Issah (2008)
Dagbani Verb Tonology by Larry Hyman and Knut Olawsky (2004)
What is a word in Dagbani? by Knut Olawsky (2003)
The phonology of the nominal in Dagbani by W.A.A. Wilson and J.T. Bendor-Samuel (2009 [originally published 1965])
Interaction of tone and morphology in Dagbani by Knut Olawsky (1997; note also summary of linguistlist discussion on Tones and Morphemes in Dagbani)
Numerals in Dagbani by W.A.A. Wilson (1999 data contribution)
Using ultrasound for language documentation by Amanda Miller (power point with reference to Dagbani labiovelar sounds)
UCLA word/phrase list (1962)
Glossary of Dagbani terms in The Problem of Money by Bernhard Bielich (2007)
Morphological category and nasal contrast in Dagbani by Hudu Fusheini (2006) (no longer available on the web)
(see also http://www.africanlanguages.org/gur.html)
Dagbani language documents on the web:
Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Dagbani
Selected verses of the Holy Quran in Dagbani
Korforidua Senior High School Syllabus in Dagbani
Some Dagbani proverbs (naha) and their moral teachings
Baha'i Short Obligatory Prayer in Dagbani
Sample page of Bible in Dagbani (John)
Video on the web in Dagbani?:
Kayayo Multimedia Tour (also on youtube)
Witches in Exile (trailer)
Good News in Dagbani (movie trailer)
TV Africa (News in Dagbani 10:00-10:30 am???)
Misc/Outreach/Blogs:
http://www.uniteforsight.org/volunteer-abroad/ghana/tamale-preparation/dagbani (with film on Tamale culture and language examples)
Bryn Mawr Basic Dagbani phrases
Dagbani in the news:
Frafra teachers kick against Dagbani (Friday, 22 May 2009)
First Dagbani Version of Holy Quran Launched (Friday, 19 December 2008)
Veep asks Muslims to give Islam a new image (7 July 2008)
Quran Translated Into Dagbani (Tuesday, 29 April 2008)
HIV/AIDS song in Dagbani launched (Monday, 27 September 2004)
note also (and archives): Latest News About Dagbani Language
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References:
Ghana Statistical Services. 2002. Population and housing census. Summary report of final results. Accra: Ghana Statistical Services.
Lewis, M. Paul. (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the world, 16th edn.. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com/.
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