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href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yezho%C3%B9_senoufoek" title="Yezhoù senoufoek – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Yezhoù senoufoek" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senufo-Sprachen" title="Senufo-Sprachen – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Senufo-Sprachen" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenguas_senufo" title="Lenguas senufo – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Lenguas senufo" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hif mw-list-item"><a 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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox" style="width:22em;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="background-color: #ffddaa;">Senufo</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-size:110%; color: black; background-color: #ffddaa;">Senoufo</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Geographic<br />distribution</th><td class="infobox-data">northern <a href="/wiki/Ivory_Coast" title="Ivory Coast">Ivory Coast</a>, southern <a href="/wiki/Mali" title="Mali">Mali</a>, southwestern <a href="/wiki/Burkina_Faso" title="Burkina Faso">Burkina Faso</a>, western <a href="/wiki/Ghana" title="Ghana">Ghana</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Language_family" title="Language family">Linguistic classification</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Niger%E2%80%93Congo_languages" title="Niger–Congo languages">Niger–Congo</a>?<ul style="line-height:100%; margin-left:15px;padding-left:0"><li><a href="/wiki/Atlantic%E2%80%93Congo" class="mw-redirect" title="Atlantic–Congo">Atlantic–Congo</a><ul style="line-height:100%; margin-left:5px;padding-left:0"><li><b>Senufo</b></li></ul></li></ul></td></tr><tr class="plainlist"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Subdivisions</th><td class="infobox-data"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Suppire%E2%80%93Mamara_languages" title="Suppire–Mamara languages">Suppire–Mamara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karaboro_languages" title="Karaboro languages">Karaboro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Senari_languages" title="Senari languages">Senari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kpalaga_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Kpalaga language">Kpalaga</a> (Palaka)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tagwana%E2%80%93Djimini_languages" title="Tagwana–Djimini languages">Tagwana–Djimini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nafaanra_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Nafaanra language">Nafaanra</a></li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: black; background-color: #ffddaa;">Language codes</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Glottolog" title="Glottolog">Glottolog</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><samp><code><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/senu1239">senu1239</a></code></samp></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Senufo_languages.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Senufo_languages.png/300px-Senufo_languages.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="340" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Senufo_languages.png/450px-Senufo_languages.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Senufo_languages.png/600px-Senufo_languages.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="906" /></a></span><div style="text-align:left;">Map of the Senufo language area showing the major groups and some neighbouring languages.</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Senufo</b> or <b>Senufic languages</b> (<a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <i lang="fr">Senoufo</i>) comprise around 15 languages spoken by the <a href="/wiki/Senufo_people" title="Senufo people">Senufo</a> in the north of <a href="/wiki/Ivory_Coast" title="Ivory Coast">Ivory Coast</a>, the south of <a href="/wiki/Mali" title="Mali">Mali</a> and the southwest of <a href="/wiki/Burkina_Faso" title="Burkina Faso">Burkina Faso</a>. An isolated language, <a href="/wiki/Nafaanra_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Nafaanra language">Nafaanra</a>, is also spoken in the west of <a href="/wiki/Ghana" title="Ghana">Ghana</a>. The Senufo languages constitute their own branch of the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic%E2%80%93Congo" class="mw-redirect" title="Atlantic–Congo">Atlantic–Congo</a> sub-family of the <a href="/wiki/Niger%E2%80%93Congo_languages" title="Niger–Congo languages">Niger–Congo languages</a>. Anne Garber estimates the total number of <a href="/wiki/Senufo_people" title="Senufo people">Senufos</a> at some 1.5 million; the <a href="/wiki/Ethnologue" title="Ethnologue">Ethnologue</a>, based on various population estimates, counts 2.7 million.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="Need the year this event took place (May 2018)">year needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The Senufo languages are bounded to the west by <a href="/wiki/Mande_languages" title="Mande languages">Mande languages</a>, to the south by <a href="/wiki/Kwa_languages" title="Kwa languages">Kwa languages</a>, and to the north and east by Central <a href="/wiki/Gur_languages" title="Gur languages">Gur languages</a>. </p><p>The Senufo languages are like the Gur languages in that they have a suffixal <a href="/wiki/Noun_class" title="Noun class">noun class</a> system and that verbs are marked for aspect. Most Gur languages to the north of Senufo have a two tone <a href="/wiki/Downstep" title="Downstep">downstep</a> system, but the tonal system of the Senufo languages is mostly analysed as a three level tone system (High, Mid, Low). </p><p>The Senufo languages have been influenced by the neighbouring Mande languages in numerous ways. Many words have been borrowed from the Mande languages <a href="/wiki/Bambara_language" title="Bambara language">Bambara</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jula_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Jula language">Jula</a>. Carlson notes that "it is probable that several grammatical constructions are calques on the corresponding Bambara constructions".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarlson19942_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECarlson19942-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Like Mande languages, the Senufo languages have a <a href="/wiki/Subject%E2%80%93object%E2%80%93verb" class="mw-redirect" title="Subject–object–verb">subject–object–verb</a> (SOV) <a href="/wiki/Constituent_order" class="mw-redirect" title="Constituent order">constituent order</a>, rather than the <a href="/wiki/Subject%E2%80%93verb%E2%80%93object" class="mw-redirect" title="Subject–verb–object">subject–verb–object</a> (SVO) order which is more common in Gur and in <a href="/wiki/Niger%E2%80%93Congo_languages" title="Niger–Congo languages">Niger–Congo</a> as a whole. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Classification">Classification</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Senufo_languages&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Classification"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Delafosse was the first linguist to write on the Senufo languages. He noted that the Senufo were often confused with the Mande, partly because use of Mande languages by the Senufo was widespread:<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDelafosse1904192–217_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDelafosse1904192–217-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dd><i>[L]a langue mandé s'est répandue parmi eux, des alliances nombreuses ont eu lieu... C'est là l'origine de la confusion que l'on a faite souvent entre Mandé et Sénoufo ... alors que, au triple point de vue ethnographique, antropologique et linguistique, la différence est profonde entre ces deux familles.</i><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDelafosse1904193_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDelafosse1904193-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <p>In the influential classifications of Westermann and Bendor-Samuel, the Senufo languages were classified as Gur languages.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWestermann1927_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWestermann1927-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWestermannBryan1970_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWestermannBryan1970-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBendor-Samuel1971_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBendor-Samuel1971-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1975, this classification was called into doubt by <a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Manessy" title="Gabriel Manessy">Gabriel Manessy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEManessy1975_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEManessy1975-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1989, John Naden, in his overview of the Gur family, stated that ‘[t]he remaining languages, especially Senufo, may well be no more closely related to Central Gur than to Guang or Togo Remnant, or than these to Central Gur or Volta-Comoe’.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENaden1989143_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENaden1989143-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Subclassification">Subclassification</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Senufo_languages&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Subclassification"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Early Senufo classifications were mainly geographically motivated, dividing the Senufo languages into Northern, Central, and Southern Senufo.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBendor-Samuel1971_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBendor-Samuel1971-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In subsequent years, this terminology was adopted by several linguists working on Senufo languages.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarber1987_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarber1987-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarlson1983_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECarlson1983-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarlson1994_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECarlson1994-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mensah (1983) and Mills (1984) avoided this geographical terms but used mainly the same grouping.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarber1987_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarber1987-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/SIL_International" title="SIL International">SIL International</a> in its Ethnologue subdivides the Senufo languages in six groups. Combining the two classifications results in the grouping below. </p><p><b>Northern Senufo</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Suppire%E2%80%93Mamara_languages" title="Suppire–Mamara languages">Suppire–Mamara languages</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mamara_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Mamara language">Mamara</a> (Minyanka, Mianka) (740,000 speakers)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nanerig%C3%A9_language" title="Nanerigé language">Nanerigé</a> (Nanergé) (50,000 speakers)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sucite_language" title="Sucite language">Sucite</a> (Sicite, Sìcìté) (38,000 speakers)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supyire_language" title="Supyire language">Supyire</a> (Suppire, Shempire, Syempire) (spoken in <a href="/wiki/Mali" title="Mali">Mali</a>) (460,000 speakers)</li></ul></li></ul> <p><b>Central Senufo</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Karaboro_languages" title="Karaboro languages">Karaboro languages</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kar_language" title="Kar language">Eastern Karaboro</a> (Kar) (40,000 speakers)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syer-Tenyer_language" title="Syer-Tenyer language">Western Karaboro</a> (Syer-Tenyer) (30,000 speakers)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Senari_languages" title="Senari languages">Senari languages</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cebaara_language" title="Cebaara language">Cebaara</a> (Tyebaala) (860,000 speakers)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Senara_language" title="Senara language">Senara</a> (spoken in <a href="/wiki/C%C3%B4te_d%27Ivoire" class="mw-redirect" title="Côte d'Ivoire">Côte d'Ivoire</a>) (210,000 speakers)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nyarafolo_language" title="Nyarafolo language">Nyarafolo</a> (60,000 speakers)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palaka_language" title="Palaka language">Kpalaga</a> (Palaka) (spoken in <a href="/wiki/C%C3%B4te_d%27Ivoire" class="mw-redirect" title="Côte d'Ivoire">Côte d'Ivoire</a>) (8,000 speakers)</li></ul> <p><b>Southern Senufo</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tagwana%E2%80%93Djimini_languages" title="Tagwana–Djimini languages">Tagwana–Djimini languages</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Djimini_language" title="Djimini language">Djimini</a> (Dyimini) (spoken in <a href="/wiki/C%C3%B4te_d%27Ivoire" class="mw-redirect" title="Côte d'Ivoire">Côte d'Ivoire</a>) (96,000 speakers)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tagwana_language" title="Tagwana language">Tagwana</a> (Tagouna) (140,000 speakers)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nafaanra_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Nafaanra language">Nafaanra</a> (Nafaara) (61,000 speakers)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Footnotes">Footnotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Senufo_languages&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Footnotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 20em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECarlson19942-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarlson19942_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCarlson1994">Carlson (1994)</a>, p. 2.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDelafosse1904192–217-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDelafosse1904192–217_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFDelafosse1904">Delafosse (1904)</a>, pp. 192–217.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDelafosse1904193-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDelafosse1904193_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFDelafosse1904">Delafosse (1904)</a>, p. 193.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWestermann1927-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWestermann1927_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWestermann1927">Westermann (1927)</a>.<span class="error harv-error" style="display: none; 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Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-11-014057-8" title="Special:BookSources/3-11-014057-8"><bdi>3-11-014057-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Grammar+of+Supyire&rft.place=Berlin%2FNew+York&rft.pub=Mouton+de+Gruyter&rft.date=1994&rft.isbn=3-11-014057-8&rft.aulast=Carlson&rft.aufirst=Robert&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASenufo+languages" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCarlson1997" class="citation book cs1">Carlson, Robert (1997). <i>The Senufo Languages</i>. CP/CV 2: Actes du CILG1. pp. 23–42.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Senufo+Languages&rft.pages=23-42&rft.pub=CP%2FCV+2%3A+Actes+du+CILG1&rft.date=1997&rft.aulast=Carlson&rft.aufirst=Robert&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASenufo+languages" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGarber1980" class="citation journal cs1">Garber, Anne (1980). "Word order change and the Senufo languages". <i>Studies in the Linguistic Sciences</i>. <b>10</b> (1): 45–57.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Studies+in+the+Linguistic+Sciences&rft.atitle=Word+order+change+and+the+Senufo+languages&rft.volume=10&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=45-57&rft.date=1980&rft.aulast=Garber&rft.aufirst=Anne&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASenufo+languages" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGarber1987" class="citation book cs1">Garber, Anne (1987). <i>A Tonal Analysis of Senufo: Sucite dialect (Gur; Burkina Faso)</i> (PhD dissertation). Urbana: University of Illinois / Ann Arbor: UMI.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Tonal+Analysis+of+Senufo%3A+Sucite+dialect+%28Gur%3B+Burkina+Faso%29&rft.pub=Urbana%3A+University+of+Illinois+%2F+Ann+Arbor%3A+UMI&rft.date=1987&rft.aulast=Garber&rft.aufirst=Anne&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASenufo+languages" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGarber1991" class="citation journal cs1">Garber, Anne (1991). "The phonological structure of the Senufo word (Sicite)". <i>Journal of West African Languages</i>. <b>21</b> (2): 3–20.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Journal+of+West+African+Languages&rft.atitle=The+phonological+structure+of+the+Senufo+word+%28Sicite%29&rft.volume=21&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=3-20&rft.date=1991&rft.aulast=Garber&rft.aufirst=Anne&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASenufo+languages" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFManessy1996a" class="citation journal cs1">Manessy, Gabriel (1996a). "La determination nominal en sénoufo". <i>Linguistique Africaine</i>. <b>16</b>: 53–68.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Linguistique+Africaine&rft.atitle=La+determination+nominal+en+s%C3%A9noufo&rft.volume=16&rft.pages=53-68&rft.date=1996&rft.aulast=Manessy&rft.aufirst=Gabriel&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASenufo+languages" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFManessy1996b" class="citation journal cs1">Manessy, Gabriel (1996b). "Observations sur la classification nominale en sénoufo". <i>Afrika und Übersee</i>. <b>79</b>: 21–35.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Afrika+und+%C3%9Cbersee&rft.atitle=Observations+sur+la+classification+nominale+en+s%C3%A9noufo&rft.volume=79&rft.pages=21-35&rft.date=1996&rft.aulast=Manessy&rft.aufirst=Gabriel&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASenufo+languages" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMills1984" class="citation book cs1">Mills, Elizabeth (1984). <i>Senoufo phonology, discourse to syllabe (a prosodic approach)</i>. SIL publications in linguistics. Vol. 72. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1040-0850">1040-0850</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Senoufo+phonology%2C+discourse+to+syllabe+%28a+prosodic+approach%29&rft.series=SIL+publications+in+linguistics&rft.date=1984&rft.issn=1040-0850&rft.aulast=Mills&rft.aufirst=Elizabeth&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASenufo+languages" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Classification_2">Classification</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Senufo_languages&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Classification"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBendor-Samuel1971" class="citation book cs1">Bendor-Samuel, John (1971). "Niger–Congo: Gur". In Thomas Sebeok; Jack Berry (eds.). <i>Linguistics in sub-saharan Africa</i>. Current trends in linguistics. Vol. 7. The Hauge/Paris: Mouton. pp. 141–178.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Niger%E2%80%93Congo%3A+Gur&rft.btitle=Linguistics+in+sub-saharan+Africa&rft.place=The+Hauge%2FParis&rft.series=Current+trends+in+linguistics&rft.pages=141-178&rft.pub=Mouton&rft.date=1971&rft.aulast=Bendor-Samuel&rft.aufirst=John&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASenufo+languages" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDelafosse1904" class="citation book cs1">Delafosse, Maurice (1904). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k824366"><i>Vocabulaires comparatifs de plus de 60 langues ou dialects parlés à la Côte d' Ivoire ou dans les régions limitrophes (avec des notes linguistiques et ethnologiques, une bibliographie et une carte)</i></a>. Paris: Leroux.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Vocabulaires+comparatifs+de+plus+de+60+langues+ou+dialects+parl%C3%A9s+%C3%A0+la+C%C3%B4te+d%27+Ivoire+ou+dans+les+r%C3%A9gions+limitrophes+%28avec+des+notes+linguistiques+et+ethnologiques%2C+une+bibliographie+et+une+carte%29&rft.place=Paris&rft.pub=Leroux&rft.date=1904&rft.aulast=Delafosse&rft.aufirst=Maurice&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fgallica.bnf.fr%2Fark%3A%2F12148%2Fbpt6k824366&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASenufo+languages" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFManessy1975" class="citation book cs1">Manessy, Gabriel (1975). <i>Les langues Oti–Volta</i>. Paris: SELAF.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Les+langues+Oti%E2%80%93Volta&rft.place=Paris&rft.pub=SELAF&rft.date=1975&rft.aulast=Manessy&rft.aufirst=Gabriel&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASenufo+languages" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMensahTchagbale1983" class="citation book cs1">Mensah, E.N.A.; Tchagbale, Z. (1983). <i>Atlas des langues Gur de Côte d'Ivoire</i>. Abidjan: Institut de Linguistique Applique.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Atlas+des+langues+Gur+de+C%C3%B4te+d%27Ivoire&rft.place=Abidjan&rft.pub=Institut+de+Linguistique+Applique&rft.date=1983&rft.aulast=Mensah&rft.aufirst=E.N.A.&rft.au=Tchagbale%2C+Z.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASenufo+languages" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNaden1989" class="citation book cs1">Naden, Anthony J. (1989). "Gur". In Bendor-Samuel, John; Hartell, Rhonda L. (eds.). <i>The Niger–Congo languages. A classification and description of Africa's largest language family</i>. Lanham, New York, London: University Press of America. pp. 140–168.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Gur&rft.btitle=The+Niger%E2%80%93Congo+languages.+A+classification+and+description+of+Africa%27s+largest+language+family&rft.place=Lanham%2C+New+York%2C+London&rft.pages=140-168&rft.pub=University+Press+of+America&rft.date=1989&rft.aulast=Naden&rft.aufirst=Anthony+J.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASenufo+languages" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWestermannBryan1970" class="citation book cs1">Westermann, Diedrich; Bryan, M.A. (1970) [1952]. <i>The Languages of West Africa</i>. 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scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Indigenous<br />languages</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Kru_languages" title="Kru languages">Kru</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aizi_languages" title="Aizi languages">Aizi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bakw%C3%A9_language" title="Bakwé language">Bakwé</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B%C3%A9t%C3%A9_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Bété language">Bété</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dida_language" title="Dida language">Dida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glio-Ubi_language" title="Glio-Ubi language">Glio-Ubi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Godi%C3%A9_language" title="Godié language">Godié</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guere_language" title="Guere language">Guéré</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Konobo_language" title="Konobo language">Konobo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuya_language" title="Kuya language">Kuya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kwadia_language" title="Kwadia language">Kwadia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mobu_language" title="Mobu language">Mobu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nyabwa_language" title="Nyabwa language">Nyabwa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neyo_language" title="Neyo language">Neyo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siamou_language" title="Siamou language">Siamou</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiagba_language" title="Tiagba language">Tiagba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wan%C3%A9_language" title="Wané language">Wané</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wob%C3%A9_language" title="Wobé language">Wobé</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Kwa_languages" title="Kwa languages">Kwa</a></th><td 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