1 CLASSIFICATION
AND WHERE SPOKEN
Suppire/Minianka, spoken
in southeastern Mali, belongs to the Northern Senufo subgroup of Gur Voltaic.
2 NUMBER OF SPEAKERS
Grime (1996) reports 923,000 speakers of Susu and 187,800 speakers of Yalunka. Platiel (1978) gives a total of 505,000 Susu speakers and 113,000 Yalunka speakers. Voegelin and Voegelin (1977) give a combined total of 392,000, and Houis (1981) reports 550,000.
3 DIALECT SURVEY
Although no thorough dialect surveys of Susu have come to our attention, Voegelin and Voegelin (1977) report that the two dialects are virtually indistinguishable.
4
USAGE
Susu is an
important regional language of northern Sierra Leone and western Guinea (coastal
region).
5
ORTHOGRAPHIC STATUS
No information concerning the orthographic status of Susu has
come to our attention.
6
SETS OF LEARNING MATERIALS
One set of materials appears to be sufficient.
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