Moore - Mooré - Mòoré
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Categories: Languages, Burkina Faso, Northern Togo
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- 1. Classification / Classification
- 2. Where Spoken / Localisation géographique
- 3. Number of Speakers / Nombre de locuteurs
- 4. Dialect Survey / Enquête de dialecte
- 5. Usage / Utilisation
- 6. Orthography / Orthographe
- 7. Use in ICT / Utilisation dans les TIC
- 8. Localisation resources / Ressources pour localisation
- 9. Comments / Remarques
- 10. References / Références
1. Classification / Classification
Moore (or Mòoré), spoken by the Mossi, belongs to the Gur group of Niger Congo. (Webbook)
Ethnologue lists the classification as: Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, North, Gur, Central, Northern, Oti-Volta, Western, Northwest
2. Where Spoken / Localisation géographique
Moore is spoken in Central Burkina Faso with small numbers of speakers in Mali and Togo. It is also spoken by Mossi working in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. (Webbook)
3. Number of Speakers / Nombre de locuteurs
According to Ethnologue (accessed 2015; figure for Mali from 2007):
- 5,000,000 in Burkina Faso
- 33,300 in Togo (Gblem-Poidi 2012)
- 17,000 in Mali (1980)
- Population total all countries: 5,075,300
4. Dialect Survey / Enquête de dialecte
Canu (1981) reports that Moore has four main mutually intelligible dialects: Ouagadougu, Ouahigouya, Kaya, and Tendoko. The Moore Language Board (Sous-Commission Nationale du Moore) distinguishes six mutually intelligible dialects: Lallweoogo, Wubrweoogo, Zundweoogo, Saremde, Taoolende, and Yaadre (Nikiema, personal communication, 1986). (Webbook)
According to Ethnologue: Saremdé, Taolendé, Yaadré, Ouagadougou, Yaande, Zaore (Joore), Yana (Yanga, Jaan). Yana has over 90% intelligibility of Ouagadougou Mòoré, 75% to 80% of Joore. Joore with Ouagadougou varies from 88% in Tibga to 95% in Diabo. Yanga dialect is in Togo, completely intelligible with Central Mòoré.
5. Usage / Utilisation
Moore is widely used as a lingua franca as well as for a first language. Broadcasts in Moore are heard in Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire. (Webbook)
According to Ethnologue: "Dominant African language of Burkina Faso." "De facto language of national identity. Used as trade language in the central part of the country..."
6. Orthography / Orthographe
6.1 Status / Statut
"Moore does have a standard official Latin-based orthography. It was elaborated in 1977 by the Commission nationale des langues voltaïques" (Nikiéma, personal communication, 1985). (Webbook with edit) It includes extended characters.
6.2 Sample Alphabet / Alphabet exemple
The alphabet of Moore in Burkina Faso as reported by several sources is:
a b d e ɛ f g h i ɩ k l m n o p r s t u ʋ v w y z
(There are three extended characters : ɛ, ɩ, ʋ )
See:
- Data from Hartell (1993) as presented in
- Mimer "Moore Alphabet Collation Chart" http://developer.mimer.com/charts/moore.htm
- Keyboard layout for the language available at http://www.abcburkina.net/sedelan/contenu/services/edition.html
7. Use in ICT / Utilisation dans les TIC
7.1 Fonts / Polices
Unicode fonts with extended Latin ranges including IPA will have the necessary characters.
7.2 Keyboard layouts / Dispositions de clavier
Tavultesoft Keyman keyboards for AZERTY:
- "Moore" http://www.abcburkina.net/sedelan/contenu/services/edition.html
- "Moor gʋndga" http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/downloads/keyboards/details.php?KeyboardID=394&FromKeyman=0
Etienne de Boissezon (edbz_at_free.fr) has set up a layout for Moore.
7.3 Content on computers & internet / Contenu en informatique et sur l'Internet
Mooré Primer: http://www.dcaccess.net/~huhtaman/primer/
Ninsaal yel-segdɩ noy gãnegr sebre (Universal Declaration of Human Rights): http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/mhm.htm
Pʋg-taab a yiib solemde (a tale in Moore): http://www.abcburkina.net/contes/conte14_moore.htm
7.4 Localized software / Logiciels localisés
There are several different efforts that were beginning separately. These are now in communication.
7.5 Language codes / Codes de langue
- ISO 639-1: -
- ISO 639-2: mos
- ISO 639-3: mos
7.6 Other / Autre
Outline of an approach for TTS for Moore:
Benemanda Medard Zoungrana, "Towards a Text-to-Speech System for Moore: Procedure and Analysis," M.A. Thesis, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota, May, 2012. http://orthographyclearinghouse.org/theses/texttoSpeechApproachtoMooreOrthographybyZoungrana.pdf
8. Localisation resources / Ressources pour localisation
8.1 Individuals (experts) / Individuelles (experts)
8.2 Institutions / Institutions
Sous-Commission Nationale du Moore (does this still exist?)
8.3 On the internet / Sur la toile
Edition en langue nationale de Burkina Faso http://www.abcburkina.net/sedelan/contenu/services/edition.html
Correcteur d'orthographe Moore http://www.abcburkina.net/sedelan/contenu/services/linguistique.htm
9. Comments / Remarques
10. References / Références
Chanard, Christian (2006), Systèmes alphabétiques des langues africaines, LLACAN, CNRS, http://sumale.vjf.cnrs.fr/phono/
Dwyer, David (1997), Webbook of African Languages, http://africa.isp.msu.edu/afrlang/hiermenu.html (page on "Moore," http://africa.isp.msu.edu/afrlang/Moore_root.html )
Hartell, Rhonda L., ed. (1993), The Alphabets of Africa. Dakar: UNESCO and SIL. (The French edition, published the same year, is entitled Alphabets de Langues Africaines).
SIL International, Ethnologue: Languages of the World, "Moore," http://www.ethnologue.com/language/mos
SIL International, "ISO 639 Code Tables," http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/codes.asp
U.S. Library of Congress, "ISO 639.2: Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages: Alpha-3 codes arranged alphabetically by the English name of language," http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/English_list.php
Wikipedia, "Moré," https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moré
______, "Mossi language," https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossi_language
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Categories: Languages, Burkina Faso, Northern Togo