Alternate Names: Black Bobo, Bobo, Bobo Fi, Bobo Fing
Dialects: Benge, Sogokiré, Syabéré (Sya), Voré, Zara (Bobo Dioula, Bobo Jula).
Genealogy:
Demographics: 160,000 (1999 SIL).
Language Use: All ages. French [fra] is used by the educated. Also use Jula [dyu].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L2: 10% Jula. Syabéré in Bobo Dioulasso region is the prestige dialect, and is used for literature. Bible: 2004.
Typology: Tonal.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Burkina Faso
Other Comments: The government calls them Bobo Madaré. ‘Bobo’ is the general Bambara word for Bobo Fing, Buamu, or Bomu. Traditional religion, Christian (Protestant), Muslim.