Diula, also spelt Dyula or Jula, is a Mande language of West Africa, spoken mainly in Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Mali. It grew up as a traders' language and still works as a market lingua franca across the region, so second-language speakers far outnumber native ones and combined estimates run well into the millions. Diula is part of the Manding dialect continuum and is closely related to Bambara, the major language of Mali, with a high degree of mutual intelligibility between the two. It is a tonal language. Writing uses the Latin alphabet in most modern contexts, though the N'Ko script, devised in 1949 for Manding languages, is also used by some communities.
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