Susu language
| Soso | |
|---|---|
| Sosoxi | |
| Native to | Guinea, Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau |
| Region | Coastal Guinea |
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Native speakers
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1.06 million (2001–2006) |
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Niger–Congo
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | |
| ISO 639-3 | |
| Glottolog | susu1250 |
The Susu language (endonym Sosoxui; French: Soussou) is the language of the Susu or Soso people of Guinea and Sierra Leone, West Africa. It is in the Mande language family.
It is one of the national languages of Guinea and spoken mainly in the coastal region of the country.
The language was also used by people in the coastal regions of Guinea and Sierra Leone as a trade language.
Susu is an SOV language, Poss-N, N-D, generally suffixing, non-pro-drop, wh-in-situ, with no agreement affixes on the verb, no noun classes, no gender, and with a clitic plural marker which attaches to the last element of the NP (N or D, typically), but does not co-occur with numerals. It has no definite or indefinite articles. Sentential negation is expressed with a particle, mu, whose distribution is unclear (with adjectival predicates it seems to sometimes infix, but with transitive verbs it comes before the object).
Examples:
cf.
Object pronouns have the same form as subject pronouns:
Adverbs can precede the subject or follow the verb:
NPs come in a variety of forms:
Possessive affixes precede the noun:
Susu does not appear to have tones. The grapheme ⟨kh⟩ above represents a voiced uvular fricative (the "r" in French "Paris").
Sosoxui is closely related to the Yalunka language.
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