Safaliba
Native toGhana
Native speakers
5,000 (2013)[1]
Niger–Congo?
Language codes
ISO 639-3saf
Glottologsafa1243
Safaliba Drumming

Safaliba is a Gur language of Ghana.

A recent project has developed a writing system for the language in order to enable its use in adult education and early school instruction. The Safaliba writing system is based on the work (1996) of Edmund Kuŋi Yakubu, a Safaliba teacher and activist;[2] a few changes in that system were made by Paul and Jennifer Schaefer, based on their phonological work, but the writing system for the most part stayed the same.[3] Safaliba audio recordings have been documented, transcribed, and discussed in Sherris, Schaefer, and Aworo (2018).[4]

A social media page on Safaliba literacy activism in Mandari, Ghana, can be found at this link: https://www.facebook.com/SafalibaLiteracy/

References

  1. ^ Safaliba at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) closed access
  2. ^ Writing & Pedagogy,"Talk to Text Safaliba Literacy Activism: Grassroots Ghanaian Educational Language Policy" Volume 9, No 1, 2017,
  3. ^ Learning to Read in Safaliba Helps Ghanaian Kids Learn English," 1 May 2015
  4. ^ Sherris, A., Schaefer, P., & Aworo, S. M. (2018). The paradox of translanguaging in Safaliba: A rural indigenous Ghanaian language. In A. Sherris and E. Adami (Eds.), Making Signs, Translanguaging Ethnographies: Exploring Urban, Rural, and Educational Spaces, pp. 152-169. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters.


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