Nanga Dogon

Naŋa dama
Naŋa tegu
RegionMali
Native speakers
3,000 (2009)[1]
Niger–Congo?
  • Dogon
    • Nanga–Walo
      • Naŋa dama
Language codes
ISO 639-3nzz
Glottolognang1261
ELPNanga

Naŋa dama, also known as Naŋa tegu, is a Dogon language spoken in Mali that is only known from one report from 1953. Roger Blench reports that its nearest relative is the recently described Walo–Kumbe Dogon, "with which it shares both lexicon and the feature that many nouns have a final -m." Hochstetler thinks they may be the same language. It may be close to Yanda Dogon (Blench) or Jamsai tegu (Hochstetler).

  1. ^ Naŋa dama at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)