Viemo language

Viemo, also known as Vige, Vigué, Vigye, is a language of Burkina Faso. Vigué is the term for the ethniciity while Viemo is the name of the language. It may be related at a higher level to the Gur language family, but its exact affiliation within Niger–Congo languages is not yet established .^[2] It is spoken in Karangasso-Vigué Department and in neighbouring provinces.^[3]

Viemo
Native to	Burkina Faso
Native speakers	(8,000 cited 1995)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo? Savannas? Gur? Viemo
Language codes
ISO 639-3	vig
Glottolog	viem1243

The central village, said to be the origin of other villages, is Karangasso-Vigué, which is distinct from Karangasso-Sembla, an important village of Sembla people (speakers of Seenku language) west of Bobo Dioulasso. Other important ethnic Vigué villages are Klesso, Dérégouan, and Dan. Speakers are called Vigué by Dyula speakers.^[4]

Phonology

Consonants^[5]

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Labiovelar
Plosive	p b	t d	c ɟ	k	kp gb
Fricative	f v	s		x
Nasal	m	n	ɲ	ŋʷ
Approximant	w	l	j

Vowels^[5]

	Front	Central	Back
High	i iː ĩ ĩː		u uː ũ ũː
Mid-high	e eː		o oː
Mid-low	ɛ ɛː ɛ̃ ɛ̃ː		ɔ ɔː ɔ̃ ɔ̃ː
Low		a aː ã ãː

Viemo also has three tones;^[5] high, mid, and low.