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Dioula
Julakan
Spoken in	Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire
Region	central southern Mali and abroad
Total speakers	2,700,000 (several millions more including second language speakers)
Language family	Niger-Congo ? Mande Western Mande ... Manding East Manding Bamana Dioula; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-1	None
ISO 639-2	dyu
ISO 639-3	dyu
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Dioula (Dyula) is a Mande language spoken in Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire. It is one of the Manding languages, and is most closely related to Bambara (in a manner similar to the relation between American English and British English). It is probably the most used language for trade in West Africa.^{[citation needed]}

Dioula language and people are distinct from the Diola (Jola) people of Guinea-Bissau and Casamance.

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