Senari Languages
The Senari languages form a central dialect cluster of the Senufo languages.
They are spoken in northern Ivory Coast, southern Mali and southwest Burkina Faso by more than a million Senufo. Three varieties can be distinguished,
| Senari | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | northern Ivory Coast, southern Mali, southern Burkina Faso |
| Linguistic classification | Niger–Congo?
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| Glottolog | cent2244 |
 The Senufo language area | |
all with several dialects. With 860,000 speakers, Cebaara (Tyembara) is the largest of the four; it is also the central variety, spoken around the traditional Senufo center Korhogo. Senara (190,000 native speakers) of the Laraba Province of Burkina Faso is a geographic outlier; intelligibility testing with Cebaara yields ratings between 42 and 74 per cent (SIL). Nyarafolo is spoken by 50,000 in northeast Ivory Coast around Ferkessédougou; Ethnologue reports a classification as Tagwana-Djimini rather than Senari. Within Senufo as a whole, the Senari languages are thought to be most closely related to the Karaboro languages.
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