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Language code: mos

Technical information about ISO 639 language code mos

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The table below provides technical details for the Mossi language, designated by the mos code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

mos

Name

Mossi

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Central (Ouagadougou)KayaPlateau-CentralYatengaPenkré
Related languages
DagbaniMampruliGurene (Frafra)DagaareKusaal
Key facts
Spoken by roughly 8–9 million people across West AfricaTwo-tone (high and low) system where tone alone can change word meaningNoun classes are signalled mainly by suffixes rather than prefixesMakes an inclusive/exclusive distinction in the first-person plural pronounWritten with an extended Latin alphabet that includes ɩ, ɛ, ŋ, but tones are usually left unmarked in everyday texts
Sample phrase

Laafi? Ne y yibeogo?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Mossi language, identified by the code mos, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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