Dialects: Lexical similarity: 72% with the Buipe dialect of Gonja , (most similar).
Genealogy:
Demographics: 14,000 (2003 GILLBT), increasing.
Language Use: Vigorous. All domains. All ages. Also use English [eng].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 5%–15%. Grammar. NT: 2012.
Typology: SVO; postpositions; genitives before noun heads; articles, adjectives, numerals, relatives after noun heads; question word initial; word order distinguishes subjects, objects, indirect objects, given and new information, topic and comment; subject pronouns are clitics, objects (postverbal) can be treated as independent words; subject and object pronouns indicate person and number; limited noun class agreement of head nouns with modifiers; verb agreement with prefix concord marker which is usually a copy of the head noun (agreement both within noun phrase and subject-verb), but less extensive than in many Bantu languages; semiproductive causative suffix on verbs; comparison typically indicated by a serial verb or serial clause construction; CV, CVC, limited V(C); tonal.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Ghana
Other Comments: Traditional religion.