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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Africa > Burkina Faso > Viemo

Viemo

A language of Burkina Faso

ISO 639-3vig

Population  8,000 (1995 SIL).
Region  Houet Province, Karankasso Vigué Department, 40 km southeast of Bobo Dioulasso.
Language map  Burkina Faso, reference number 61
Alternate names   Vige, Vigué, Vigye
Classification  Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, North, Gur, Viemo
Language use  Vigorous. Home, village. All ages. Also use Jula [dyu] or French.
Language development  Literacy rate in L2: 5% in Jula, 1% in French.
Comments  Tonal. Peasant agriculturalists. Traditional religion, Muslim.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BERTHELETTE, John, author. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report for the Vigué (Viemo) language."  Available online