Dan

Mande language of West Africa
Language language Q1158971
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Dan

Summary

Dan is a language[1]. Dan ranks in the top 5% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Dan is identified as part of the Dan people ethnic group[3].
  • Dan is in the country of Ivory Coast[4].
  • Dan is in the country of Guinea[5].
  • Dan is in the country of Liberia[6].
  • Dan's instance of is recorded as language[7].
  • Dan's instance of is recorded as modern language[8].
  • Dan is a type of Southern Mande[9].
  • Dan's writing system is recorded as Latin script[10].
  • Dan's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Dan language[11].
  • Dan's indigenous to is recorded as Montagnes District[12].
  • Dan's indigenous to is recorded as Lola Prefecture[13].
  • Dan's indigenous to is recorded as Nzérékoré Region[14].
  • Dan's indigenous to is recorded as Nimba[15].
  • Dan's Ethnologue language status is recorded as 5 Developing[16].

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Origins and Family

Dan is identified as part of the Dan people ethnic group[3].

Why It Matters

Dan ranks in the top 5% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2 views/month).[2] Dan has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] Dan is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [7] . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  5. [8] . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [3] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Ethnologue language status 5 Developing
    Country
    Ethnic group Dan people
    Indigenous to Montagnes District, Lola Prefecture, Nzérékoré Region +1
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007540865205171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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