Toro-tegu Dogon

Toro-tegu Dogon
Tɔrɔ tegu
RegionMali
Native speakers
(2,900 cited 1998)[1]
Niger–Congo?
  • Dogon
    • Plains
      • Toro-tegu Dogon
Language codes
ISO 639-3dtt
Glottologtoro1253

The Toro language, Tɔrɔ tegu 'Mountain speech', is a Dogon language spoken in Mali. It is closest to the prestige variety of Dogon, Jamsay tegu, though speakers deny they are related and understand little of it. (They understand nothing of the Dogon languages on the escarpment or plateau.) Hochstetler report difficulties in comprehension between Tɔrɔ tegu and one of the western Plains Dogon languages, Tomo kan.

  1. ^ Toro-tegu Dogon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)