Editing Dyula language (section)

{{Short description|Mande language spoken in West Africa}}
{{Distinguish|Jola-Fonyi language{{!}}Diola language}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Dyula
| nativename       = {{lang|dyu-latn|Julakan}} {{lang|dyu-nkoo|ߖߎ߬ߟߊ߬ߞߊ߲}}
| states           = [[Burkina Faso]], [[Mali]], [[Ivory Coast]]
| ethnicity        = [[Dyula people|Dyula]]
| speakers         = [[first language|L1]]: {{sigfig|2.563000|2}} million
| date             = 2012–2021
| ref              = e27
| speakers2        = [[second language|L2]]:  {{sigfig|10.278000|2}} million (2012–2013)<ref name=e27/>
| familycolor      = Niger-Congo
| fam2             = [[Mande languages|Mande]]
| fam3             = [[Mande languages|Western]]
| fam4             = [[Manding languages|Manding]]
| fam5             = [[Manding languages|East]]
| fam6             = [[Bambara language|Bambara–Dyula]]
| iso2             = dyu
| iso3             = dyu
| glotto           = dyul1238
| glottorefname    = Dyula
| script           = [[N'Ko script|N'Ko]], [[Latin script|Latin]], [[Ajami script|Ajami]]
| altname          = Jula, Dioula
}}

[[File:WIKITONGUES- Achille speaking Mooré and Dioula.webm|thumb|A Dyula speaker speaking Mooré and Dyula, recorded in [[Taiwan]].]]

'''Dyula''' (or '''Jula''', '''Dioula''', ''Julakan'' ߖߎ߬ߟߊ߬ߞߊ߲) is a language of the [[Mande languages|Mande language family]] spoken mainly in [[Burkina Faso]], [[Ivory Coast]] and [[Mali]], and also in some other countries, including [[Ghana]], [[Guinea]] and [[Guinea-Bissau]]. It is one of the [[Manding languages]] and is most closely related to [[Bambara language|Bambara]], being [[Mutual intelligibility|mutually intelligible]] with Bambara as well as [[Maninka language|Malinke]]. It is a [[Lingua franca|trade language]] in [[West Africa]] and is spoken by millions of people, either as a first or second language. Similar to the other Mande languages, it uses [[Tone (linguistics)|tones]]. It may be written in the [[Latin script|Latin]], [[Arabic script|Arabic]] or [[N'Ko script]]s.