Alternate Names: Da, Gio, Gio-Dan, Ya, Yacouba, Yakuba
Dialects: Blowo (Western Dan), Gweetaawu (Eastern Dan). At least 38 subdialects. In Liberia speakers in Garplay understood Côte d’Ivoire Yacouba dialect recordings as follows: Danane, Koulinle, Kale: very well; Blosse: quite well; Bloundo: reasonably well; dialects east of Blouno: considerable difficulty (Bolli and Frick 1971).
Genealogy:
Demographics: 1,300,000 in Côte d’Ivoire (2012 V. Vydrin). 650,000 in Eastern Dan, 650,000 in western Dan. Population total all countries: 1,610,800.
Language Use: All domains. All ages. Educated Dan also use French [fra]. Also use Jula [dyu]. Used as L2 by Toura [neb].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 1% or more. Literacy rate in L2: 25%–50%. Taught in primary schools. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1981–1993.
Typology: Whistle speech reported.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Côte d’Ivoire
Other Comments: Christian, Muslim.