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Niger–Congo is a hypothetical language family spoken over the majority of sub-Saharan Africa. [1] It unites the Mande languages, the Atlantic–Congo languages (which share a characteristic noun class system), and possibly several smaller groups of languages that are difficult to classify.
The Dogon languages show very few remnants of the noun class system characteristic of much of Niger–Congo, leading linguists to conclude that they likely diverged from Niger–Congo very early. [citation needed] Roger Blench comments, [1] Dogon is both lexically and structurally very different from most other [Niger–Congo] families.
The Dogon dialects of the western plains below the Bandiagara Escarpment in Mali are mutually intelligible.They are sometimes called the Kan Dogon because they use the word kan (also spelled kã) for varieties of speech.
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The Bondum language, Bondum Dom, is a Dogon language spoken in Mali. It is closest to Dogul Dogon , though not enough for mutual intelligibility. Dialects are Kindjim and Nadjamba .
Penange Dogon is a Dogon language spoken in Mali. It is close to Ampari. The language was first described as distinct in 2011 by Prokhorov. [1] The Penange Dogon speakers live in the village of Pinia (péná) in Bandiagara Cercle and call themselves péná nógè, "Pinia people". [2]