Language Perge Tegu

edited by Heath, Jeffrey and Moran, Steven

Perge Tegu ('Pergue language') is an Eastern Dogon langauge, belonging to the Jamsay dialect and is spoken in Pergue village, which is on a rocky shelf near Beni. Pergue also has a dye-ers' quarter where mainstream Jamsay is spoken. There are a few other similar montane villages nearby that are said to have distinctive Jamsay dialects.

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Dogon dogo1299
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