Dagbanin.adj.
/daɡˈbɑːni/, U.S. /dɑɡˈbɑni/, West African English /daˈɡbani/, /daˈɡbane/α. 1900s– Dagbane, 1900s– Dagbani, 1900s– Dagbone.
β. 1900s– Dagbanli.
A. n.
A language of north-eastern Ghana, belonging to the Gur branch of the Niger-Congo family. Also occasionally: a member of the people who speak this language. Cf. Mole–Dagbani n.
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Kissi1884
Ewe1890
Senufo1911
Dagbani1913
Limba1925
1913 Jrnl. Afr. Soc. 12 317 Dr. Fisch has also given us a useful grammar. The language is called Dagbane: the people Dagbamba.
1917 S. Okarku Dagomba Gram. 1 The best Dagbõne is spoken at Yendi, Savelugu, Kunbungu and other towns under the rule of Yendi princes.
1953 Evening Standard (Uniontown, Pa.) 30 Dec. 6/8 The British and Foreign Bible Society has arranged for the first printing of the four Gospels in Dagbani.
1973 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 42 520 Bambaya, a man's social dance of the Dagbani from Northern Nigeria.
1992 Courier (Waterloo, Iowa) 23 Aug. c1/4 Yet another language to go with the smatterings of Fanti, Dagbani, and Ga he picked up in Ghana.
2005 H. Weiss in U. van der Heyden & H. Stoecker Mission und Macht 183 Though it could be possible to introduce Dagbanli as the local school and church language in northern Togo, he underlined that Hausa..was too important to be neglected by the missionaries.
B. adj. (attributive).
Of or designating this language or its speakers. Cf. Mole–Dagbani adj.
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Negrish1735
Temne1791
Nupe1841
Efik1849
Kikongo1885
Dagbani1917
Ngbandi1931
Zande1938
Voltaic1949
Mandinka1953
Ngbaka1955
Edo1957
Loma1957
Mandekan1968
Manding1969
Malinke1970
Mende1972
1917 J. A. S. Okraku Dagomba Gram. 1 Dagbone language..is spoken..in the country known as Dagomba (but called Dagbon by the natives).
1938 Man 38 80/1 The word for the Earth or Land teŋ..becomes tɔŋ in compound words in the Dagbane dialects.
1967 Afr. Stud. Bull. 10 95 Further dissertations in progress:..‘Dagbani Syntax’, by W. A. A. Wilson (now in Ghana).
1971 Jrnl. Mod. Afr. Stud. 9 10 [The ethnomusicologist] gave instruction in the variations of Ashanti Adowa, Anlo Ewe Agbadza, and Dagbani dances.
2006 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 1 Dec. b12 The women..told the former journalist through a Dagbani interpreter that the village projects had given them greater independence.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1913