{{Short description|Dialect continuum in Burkina Faso}} {{Infobox language family |name=Karaboro |region=southern Burkina Faso |familycolor=Niger-Congo |fam2=Atlantic–Congo |fam3=Senufo |fam4=Central |map=Karaboro languages.png |mapcaption=Karaboro, some neighbouring languages and the Senufo language area. |child1=Kar (Eastern Karaboro) |child2=Syer-Tenyer (Western Karaboro) |glotto=kara1479 |glottorefname=Karaboro }}
The '''Karaboro languages''' are a dialect continuum spoken in Burkina Faso. They belong to the Senufo subfamily, but are geographically separated from other Senufo languages by a small band of unrelated languages. Linguistically, they share phonetic, morphological, and lexical features separate them from other Senufo languages.<ref name="DH2015">{{cite book |last1=Dombrowsky-Hahn |first1=Klaudia |title=A grammar of Syer (Western Karaboro, Senufo) : phonology, morphology, argument realization |date=July 2015 |publisher=Köppe |isbn=978-3-89645-612-0 |url=https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/20440/ |access-date=15 February 2026}}</ref> Within Senufo they are thought to be most closely related to the Senari languages.{{cn|date=February 2026}}
Karaboro is commonly divided into two languages: Syer-Tenyer, or Western Karaboro; and Kar, or Eastern Karaboro. The two languages are closely related but have limited mutual intelligibility. Syer was spoken by an estimated 65,000 people in 2015, often with Jula as their second language.<ref name="Dakubu2016">{{cite journal |last1=Dakubu |first1=Mary Esther Kropp |title=Review: Dombrowsky-Hahn, Klaudia: A grammar of Syer (Western Karaboro, Senufo); phonology, morphology, argument realization |journal=Journal of African Languages and Linguistics |date=1 November 2016 |volume=37 |issue=2 |pages=287–294 |doi=10.1515/jall-2016-0012 |url=https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/jall-2016-0012/html |access-date=15 February 2026 |language=en |issn=1613-3811}}</ref>
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==Bibliography== * Hook, A., R. Mills and E. Mills (1975). ''L'Enquête Dialectale Karabora'', Société Internationale de Linguistique and University of Ouagadougou. * Mills, Elizabeth (1984) ''Senoufo phonology, discourse to syllable (a prosodic approach)'' SIL publications in linguistics (ISSN 1040-0850), 72.
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Category:Karaboro languages Category:Languages of Burkina Faso Category:Senufo languages
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