Mooré

A Mooré speaker speaking Mooré and Dioula, recorded in Taiwan.Video 1 min:23 sec, 2018.

Mooré[3][4] is a Gur language of the Oti–Volta branch and one of the three official languages of Burkina Faso. It is the language of the Mossi people, spoken by approximately 6.46 million people in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Benin, Niger, Mali, Togo, and Senegal as a native language, but with many more L2 speakers. Mooré is spoken as a first or second language by over 50% of the Burkinabé population and is the main language in the capital city of Ouagadougou. It is closely related to Frafra, and less related to Dagbani.

The Lord's Prayer in Mooré translation (Church of the Pater Noster)
Blackboard with text in Mooré, including use of the letter Ʋ (v with hook)

Phonology

The Mooré language consists of the following sounds:[5]

Vowels

Notes
  • All vowels (other than /e/ and /o/) can also be nasalized.
  • All vowels (oral and nasal) can be short or long.
  • Other linguists include the vowels /ɛ/ and /ɔ/; here, they are analysed as diphthongs, (/ɛ/ is considered to be ea and /ɔ/ is considered to be oa).

Consonants

Notes
  • The semivowel /j/y is pronounced [ɲ] (palatal nasal) in front of nasal vowels.

Orthography

In Burkina Faso, the Mooré alphabet uses the letters specified in the national Burkinabé alphabet. It can also be written with the newly-devised Goulsse alphabet.

Burkinabé Mooré alphabet
AʼBDEƐFGHİƖKLMNOPRSTUƲVWYZ
aʼbdeɛfghiɩklmnoprstuʋvwyz
Phonetic values
aʔbdeɛfɡhiɪklmnoprstuʊvwjz

References

Citations

  1. Mooré at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) رمز الوصول المغلق
  2. "اقتراح لترميز نص Minim Dag Noore في نظام الترميز الموحد" (ملف PDF) . unicode.org .
  3. "مور، لغة قبيلة موسي؛ كتاب عبارات" . مكتبة الكونغرس، واشنطن العاصمة 20540 الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية .
  4. مدرسة، لايف لينغوا - دورة لغة عبر الإنترنت. "دورة اللغة الأساسية FSI More (موسي)" . لايف لينغوا .
  5. انظر كابوري (1985) : (ص 44) للحروف الساكنة، (ص 85-86) للحروف المتحركة.

المراجع

  • كابوري، رافائيل (1985). Essai d'analyse de la langue mooré (parler de Wàogdgò: Ouagadougou) (أطروحة) (بالفرنسية). جامعة باريس 7.
  • صفحة ويكي PanAfrican L10n على مور
  • قاعدة بيانات للتسجيلات الصوتية باللغة المورية - الصلوات الكاثوليكية الأساسية

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