Burkina Faso Languages

Description
Burkina Faso is a multilingual country. An estimated 70 languages are spoken there, of which about 66 are indigenous. French is the official language. English is very rarely spoken. French Mossi or Móorè Mande languages Fulfulde or Fula Gourmanché Bissa
 * It was introduced when France colonized Burkina Faso in 1919
 * French is the principal language of administrative, political and judicial institutions, public services, and the press
 * French is the language of instruction in the nation's schools
 * Fewer than 15% of the population uses French on a day-to-day basis
 * Despite this low percentage, there is a high amount of support in keeping French as the language of instruction
 * French is one of 13 languages used on the radio
 * Mossi is spoken by about 52.5% of the population
 * It is spoken mainly in the central region around the capital
 * Dyula, Bobo, Samo, and Marka are spoken in the west. Dyula (Dioula or Jula) is widely used as a trading language.
 * It is widely spoken in the north and east of the country as a first language
 * It is spoken in the east
 * Bissa is spoken in the south

Word List(s)
French Mossi or Móorè Dyula (Dioula or Jula) Fulfulde or Fula'
 * French Genealogical Word List
 * Most Common French Words at 1000MostCommonWords
 * Mooré phrasebook at Wikitravel
 * Useful phrases in Mossi at Omniglot
 * Phrases in Dioula at WordsRUs
 * Fulfulde phrasebook at Wikitravel

Alphabet and Pronunciation
French Mossi or Móorè Dyula (Dioula or Jula) Fulfulde or Fula Bissa
 * French Alphabet and Pronunciation at Wikipedia
 * French Alphabet and Pronunciation at Omniglot
 * Mossi Alphabet and Pronunciation at Omniglot
 * Dyula Alphabet and Pronunciation at Wikipedia
 * Fulfulde Alphabet and Pronunciation at Omniglot
 * Bissa Alphabet and Pronunciation at Wikipedia

Language Aids and Dictionaries
French
 * French Handwriting
 * French Letter Writing Guide
 * French Languages
 * French to English Dictionary at Cambridge
 * French Dictionary at Lexilogos

Mossi or Móorè
 * Dictionnaire Moore at Webonary
 * Dictionary English - Mòoré at Glosbe
 * An Introduction to the Moore Language at PeaceCorps

Dyula (Dioula or Jula)
 * Dioula Grammar Webonary
 * Dictionary English - Jula at Glosbe

Fulfulde or Fula
 * De Wolf, Paul P. English-Fula dictionary (Fulfulde, Pulaar, Fulani) : a multidialectal approach / 2 G - P. Berlin : Reimer, 1995. Available at WorldCat

Gourmanché
 * Gourmanché Grammar at WikiVisually

Bissa
 * Dictionnaire Bissa-Barka at Webonary

Additional Resources

 * Burkina Faso History, Language and Culture at WorldTravelGuide
 * Languages in Burkina Faso at StudyCountry
 * Burkina Phrasebook French, English, Moore, Dioula, Bambara and Fulfulde at WordsRUs