Sucite is a Senufo language spoken in southwestern Burkina Faso by approximately 35 000 people. Sucite is a close neighbour of Supyire, spoken in southeastern Mali. Sucite is sometimes regarded as the northern extension of Supyire. The two dialects are, according to Garber (1987), ‘quite mutually intelligible’. Sometimes speakers of Sucite will even refer to themselves as speaking Supyire. Another closely related lect is Mamara (also known as Minyanka).

PropertyValue
dbpedia-owl:Language/region
dbpedia-owl:Language/states
dbpedia-owl:region
dbpedia-owl:states
dbpprop:abstract
  • Sucite is a Senufo language spoken in southwestern Burkina Faso by approximately 35 000 people. Sucite is a close neighbour of Supyire, spoken in southeastern Mali. Sucite is sometimes regarded as the northern extension of Supyire. The two dialects are, according to Garber (1987), ‘quite mutually intelligible’. Sometimes speakers of Sucite will even refer to themselves as speaking Supyire. Another closely related lect is Mamara (also known as Minyanka). Some other Senufo groups refers to the Sùcìté people as Tagba, because they live on the Tagouara plateau. There are various ways to spell the dialect names. Variants of Sùcìté include Sìcìté, Sìpììté, and Sicire. The SIL language code is SEP.
dbpprop:fam
dbpprop:familycolor
  • Niger-Congo
dbpprop:hasPhotoCollection
dbpprop:iso
  • sep
dbpprop:name
  • Sucite
dbpprop:region
dbpprop:speakers
  • 35,000 in Burkina Faso (1999 SIL).
dbpprop:states
dbpprop:wikiPageUsesTemplate
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Sucite is a Senufo language spoken in southwestern Burkina Faso by approximately 35 000 people. Sucite is a close neighbour of Supyire, spoken in southeastern Mali. Sucite is sometimes regarded as the northern extension of Supyire. The two dialects are, according to Garber (1987), ‘quite mutually intelligible’. Sometimes speakers of Sucite will even refer to themselves as speaking Supyire. Another closely related lect is Mamara (also known as Minyanka).
rdfs:label
  • Sucite language
owl:sameAs
skos:subject
foaf:name
  • Sucite
foaf:page
is dbpprop:redirect of
is owl:sameAs of