Endangered Languages Project

ALSO KNOWN AS		Korandabo, Budu-Tagu, Korandabo, Bunoge Dogon
CLASSIFICATION		Niger-Congo, Dogon, West Dogon
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		dgb
DOWNLOAD		As csv
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LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "Mopti region: Bandiagara circle, Goundaka township northeast of Mopti city, Boudou, Sangou, and Dakouma villages."

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Young people don't appear to speak Bunoge much. It is a small-population language and potentially endangered.

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

Surrounded by Fulfulde-speaking villages; potential shift to Fulfulde. One elder Bunoge speaker seemed to be experiencing lexical loss in Bunoge.

Bunoge

		September			2012	Personal Communication on Dogon Languages															Jeffrey Heath	Jeffrey Heath. 2012. "Personal Communication On Dogon Languages."														Fulfulde				Surrounded by Fulfulde-speaking villages; potential shift to Fulfulde. One elder Bunoge speaker seemed to be experiencing lexical loss in Bunoge.			Threatened (40 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	12		Young people don't appear to speak Bunoge much. It is a small-population language and potentially endangered.					Mali	Spoken in the villages of Boudou and Sangou.	14.650026, -3.795884; 14.717776, -3.814423
			18th		2015	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th Edition				Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig		SIL International			Dallas, Texas					http://www.ethnologue.com		Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2015. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Eighteenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com.						1,000	2005	1000-9999	(D. Douyon and R. Blench)												Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)								Mali	"Mopti region: Bandiagara circle, Goundaka township northeast of Mopti city, Boudou, Sangou, and Dakouma villages."