Mooré

Mooré

language, modern language

Subclass of	Oti–Volta, Gur
Country	Burkina Faso, Mali, Togo, Ghana
Indigenous to	Burkina Faso, Mopti Region, Savanes Region
Coordinate location	12°18′0″N 1°48′0″W
Writing system	Latin script
UNESCO language status	1 safe
Ethnologue language status	3 Wider Communication
Wikimedia language code	mos

A Mooré speaker wey dey speak Mooré den Dioula, dem record insyd Taiwan. Video 1 min:23 sec, 2018.

Mooré, dem sanso call Burkinabé, Upper Voltan, More anaa Mossi, be a Gur language of de Oti–Volta branch den one of four official languages of Burkina Faso. E be de language of de Mossi people, approximately 6.46 million people insyd Burkina Faso, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Benin, Niger, Mali, Togo, den Senegal dey speak am as a native language, buh plus chaw more L2 speakers. Dem dey speak Mooré as a first anaa second language by over 50% of de Burkinabé population wey e be de main language insyd de capital city of Ouagadougou.

E be closely related to Frafra, den less related to Dagbani.

The Lord's Prayer insyd Mooré translation (Church of the Pater Noster)

Blackboard plus text insyd Mooré, wey dey include use of de letter Ʋ (v plus hook)

Phonology

De Mooré language dey consist of de following sounds: 

Consonants

Mooré consonant phonemes

		Labial	Alveolar	Postalveolar / palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ɲ
Stop	voiceless	p	t		k	ʔ
	voiced	b	d		ɡ
Fricative	voiceless	f	s			h
	voiced	v	z
Liquid			r
Approximant			l	j	w

Remark:

• De semivowel /j/ ⟨y⟩ be pronounced [ɲ] (palatal nasal) in front of nasal vowels.

Vowels

		Front	Central	Back
Close	close	i		u
	near-close	ɪ		ʊ
Close-mid		e		o
Open			a

• All vowels (oda dan /e/ den /o/) sanso fi be nasalized.
• All vowels (oral den nasal) fi be short anaa long.
• Oda linguists dey include de vowels /ɛ/ den /ɔ/; hie, dem be analysed as diphthongs, (/ɛ/ be considered to be ea den /ɔ/ be considered to be oa).

Orthography

Insyd Burkina Faso, de Mooré alphabet dey use de letters specified insyd de national Burkinabé alphabet. Dem sanso fi be written plus de newly-devised Goulsse alphabet.

External links

• PanAfrican L10n wiki page on Moore
• Database of audio recordings in Mòoré - basic Catholic prayers

Learning materials

• Protestant Mission, Assemblies of God. More (Language of the Mossi Tribe) Phrase Book. Ouagadougou, Upper Volta: World Digital Library.