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Dan

A language of Côte d’Ivoire

ISO 639-3: daf

Population	800,000 in Côte d’Ivoire (1993 M. Bolli). 400,000 in Eastern Dan, 400,000 in western Dan. Population total all countries: 975,800.
Region	Man Prefecture (except Kouibly and Facoubly), Danané, Biankouma and Touba prefectures. 19 villages. Also in Guinea, Liberia.
Language map	Côte d’Ivoire, reference number 23
Alternate names	Da, Gio, Gio-Dan, Yacouba, Yakuba
Dialects	Gweetaawu (Eastern Dan), Blowo (Western Dan). At least 38 subdialects. In Liberia speakers in Garplay understood Côte d’Ivoire Yacouba dialect tapes as follows: Danane, Koulinle, Kale: very well; Blosse: quite well; Bloundo: reasonably well; dialects east of Blouno: considerable difficulty (M. Bolli SIL 1971).
Classification	Niger-Congo, Mande, Eastern, Southeastern, Guro-Tura, Tura-Dan-Mano, Tura-Dan
Language use	Also use Jula [dyu] or French.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 1% or more. Literacy rate in L2: 25%–50%. NT: 1981–1993.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Called ‘Gio’ in Liberia. Some form of whistle speech reported. Agriculturalists: rice, manioc, coffee, cocoa. Traditional religion, Christian, Muslim.

Also spoken in:

Guinea

Language name	Dan
Population	800 in Guinea (2001 G. Pruett).
Region	Lola Prefecture, east of Nzoo on Côte d’Ivoire border, Kogota village.
Language map	Guinea and Guinea-Bissau, reference number 10
Alternate names	Da, Gio, Gio-Dan, Gyo, Yacouba, Yakuba
Comments	Traditional religion, Christian.

Liberia

Language name	Dan
Population	175,000 in Liberia (1993 SIL).
Region	North central, Nimba County.
Language map	Liberia, reference number 5
Alternate names	Da, Gio, Gio-Dan, Gyo, Yacouba, Yakuba
Dialects	Upper Gio, Lower Gio, River Cess Gio.
Language use	Also use Mann [mev].
Comments	Traditional religion.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BEARTH, Thomas; ZEMP, Hugo, authors. 1967. "The phonology of Dan (Santa)."

BOLLI, Margrit, author. 1976. Étude prosodique du dan (Blossé).

BOLLI, Margrit, author. 1978. Writing tone with punctuation marks.

BOLLI, Margrit, author. 1980. Progress in literacy in Yacouba country.

BOLLI, Margrit, author. 1983. The Victor Hugoes in Dan country: Developing a mother-tongue body of literature in a neoliterate society.

BOLLI, Margrit, author. 1991. Orthography difficulties to be overcome by Dan people literate in French.

BOLLI, Margrit, author; HARTELL, Rhonda L., translator. 1980. Yacouba literacy report 2: March 1977–February 1979.

BOLLI, Margrit; FLIK, Eva, authors. 1975. "Phonological statement: Dan (Blossé)."

BOLLI, Margrit; FLIK, Eva, authors. Available: 1981; Created: 1974-1975. Phonological statement: Dan (Blossé) preliminary edition.

FLIK, Eva, author. 1977. "Tone glides and registers in five Dan dialects."

FLIK, Eva, author. 1978. "Dan tense-aspect and discourse."  

FLIK, Eva, author. 1981. "Contes yacouba."

LAUBER, Edward, author. 1982. "The indigenisation of literacy in Dan (Yacouba)."

Vernacular Publications

.Dan -wo .bhle .yeu .va. 1978.

Cours-eclair de lecture pour des lecteurs d français apprenant à lire le Dan (Gwɛɛtaawʋ). 1994.

Cours-eclair de lecture pour les lecteurs du français apprenant a lire le Dan (Blowo). 1994.

Dan ʼsëëdhɛ -wo pö -ko: ʼGwe- =taa -wo. 1982.

Dan -wo .bhlee -yeu -dhee. 1978.

Dan. 1982.

Doan peu seedhè (Contes yacouba). 1972.

Guide d’orthographe pour la langue dan. 1981.

Guide d’orthographe pour la langue dan. 1982.

Guide pour les enseignants du syllabaire dan (dialecte blo -wo). 1982.

-Kwa =kwɛngzü pö! ʼSëëdhɛ -blɛɛzë / ʼSëëdhɛ -peedë -naa. 1990.

-Kwa -a peu: Yaobha ʼseedhè peu -wo, .plè -naa. 1973.

-Kwa ʼwɔn zii pö. 1990.

Yaobhaa -wo bhe pe -se -ya ʼgu. 1975.

-Zokë pë ʼpiö -kɔ -së. 1990.