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Hanga

A language of Ghana

ISO 639-3: hag

Population	6,800 (2003 GILLBT), increasing. 4,100 in the traditional area, 2,700 elsewhere.
Region	North central, southeast of Mole game reserve, Damongo District. Murugu is biggest village.
Language map	Ghana, reference number 31
Alternate names	Anga
Dialects	Northern Hanga, Southern Hanga. Kamara [jmr] is a separate language. Subdialects of Southern Hanga are Langantere, Murugu, Damongo; subdialects of Northern Hanga are Yazori and Bowena. Lexical similarity: 84% with Southern Dagaare [dga] and Farefare [gur].
Classification	Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, North, Gur, Central, Northern, Oti-Volta, Western, Southeast
Language use	Vigorous. All domains. Also use Gonja [gjn].
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 10%–30%. Literacy rate in L2: 5%–15%. NT: 1983.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Politically a subgroup of the Gonja. Agriculturalists: maize, sorghum, millet, yams, cassava.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

HUNT, Geoffrey R., author. 1978. "Paragraphing, identification, and discourse types in Hanga."  

HUNT, Geoffrey R.; HUNT, Rosemary, authors. 1981. A phonology of the Hanga language.

Vernacular Publications

Asibitibaala gbaŋŋu 1. 1987.

Bileesi yela. 1985.

Cheli ti karimi bureentiri. 1987.

Haŋa bukubila 1, 1, 3. n.d.

Haŋa sulima 1. 1979.

Haŋa sulima 3. 1986.

Kiŋŋaasasi ni taasa 1. 1987.

Koobu yela. 1981.