Bankan Tey Dogon

Bankan Tey
Walo-Kumbe
RegionMali
Native speakers
(1,300 cited 1998 census)[1]
Niger–Congo?
Language codes
ISO 639-3dbw
Glottologbank1259
ELPBankan Tey

Bankan Tey Dogon, at first called Walo-Kumbe Dogon after the two main villages it is spoken in, also known as Walo and Walonkore, is a divergent, recently described Dogon language spoken in Mali. It was first reported online by Roger Blench,[2] who reports that it is "clearly related to Nanga", which is only known from one report from 1953.

A third village investigated at the time, Been, speaks a related but lexically distinct form, Ben Tey Dogon.

  1. ^ Bankan Tey at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ "DOGON LANGUAGES". Archived from the original on 2013-06-15.