Paasaal language

Paasaal
Southern Sisaala
Region Ghana
Native speakers
36,000 (2003)[1]
Dialects
  • Gilbagala
  • Pasaali
Language codes
ISO 639-3 sig
Glottolog paas1238[2]

Paasaal, or Pasaale Sisaala (Southern Sisaala) is a Gur language of Ghana, with a thousand speakers in Ivory Coast. The two dialects, Gilbagala and Pasaali, are part of a dialect continuum that continues on into Sisaala.

References

  1. Paasaal at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Paasaal". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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