PROFILBARU.COM

Viemo
Viemo
Native to	Burkina Faso
Native speakers	(8,000 cited 1995)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo? Savannas? Gur? Viemo; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	vig
Glottolog	viem1243

Viemo, also known as Vige, Vigué, Vigye, is a language of Burkina Faso. Vigué is the term for the ethniciity while Viemo is the name of the language. It may be related at a higher level to the Gur language family, but its exact affiliation within Niger–Congo languages is not yet established .^[2] It is spoken in Karangasso-Vigué Department and in neighbouring provinces.^[3]

The central village, said to be the origin of other villages, is Karangasso-Vigué, which is distinct from Karangasso-Sembla, an important village of Sembla people (speakers of Seenku language) west of Bobo Dioulasso. Other important ethnic Vigué villages are Klesso, Dérégouan, and Dan. Speakers are called Vigué by Dyula speakers.^[4]

Phonology

Consonants^[5]
	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Labiovelar
Plosive	p b	t d	c ɟ	k	kp gb
Fricative	f v	s		x
Nasal	m	n	ɲ	ŋʷ
Approximant	w	l	j

Vowels^[5]
	Front	Central	Back
High	i iː ĩ ĩː		u uː ũ ũː
Mid-high	e eː		o oː
Mid-low	ɛ ɛː ɛ̃ ɛ̃ː		ɔ ɔː ɔ̃ ɔ̃ː
Low		a aː ã ãː

Viemo also has three tones;^[5] high, mid, and low.

References

^ Viemo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Güldemann, Tom (2018). "Historical linguistics and genealogical language classification in Africa". In Güldemann, Tom (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of Africa. The World of Linguistics series. Vol. 11. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 58–444. doi:10.1515/9783110421668-002. ISBN 978-3-11-042606-9.
^ "Burkina Faso". Ethnologue, 22nd edition. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
^ Berthelette, John. 2002. Sociolinguistic survey report for the Vigué (Viemo) language. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2002-009. PDF,
^ ^a ^b ^c Prost, André (1979). "Le Viemo: langue des Vievɔ dits Viguié". Documents Linguistiques (23). Publications de Département de Linguistique Générale et Linguistique Africaine de la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaine de l'Université de Dakar.