TheDogon dialects of the western plains below theBandiagara Escarpment inMali aremutually intelligible. They are sometimes called theKan Dogon because they use the wordkan (also spelledkã) for varieties of speech. The dialects are:

• Tomo kã
• Teŋu kã
• Togo kã

The latter two are traditionally subsumed under the nameTene kã (Tene Kan, Tene Tingi), but Hochstetler separates them because the three varieties are about equidistant.

There are a quarter million speakers of these dialects, about evenly split between Tomo Kan and Tene Kan, making this the most populous of the Dogon languages. There are a few Tomo-speaking villages just across the border in Burkina Faso.

• Consonant germination also occurs frequently among sounds[kːlːnːtː].
• /z/ can only occur among loanwords.
• /ɸ/ is interchangeable with/h/.

• Consonant sound/t͡ʃ/ only rarely occurs and in almost absent.
• Consonant sounds[zʃʒ] are absent, except in loanwords.
• /ɡ/ can be realized as a fricative[ɣ] between vowel sounds/aɔ/.
• Sounds[fh] only occur from loanwords, and are interchangeable.
• Glottal sound[ʔ] can only occur as an element in some reduplicated forms of vowel-initial words, or between vowels within a word.

• In Tomo Kan, an extra central vowel sound[ʉ] is also attested possibly as a result of/i/ preceding a nasalised segment or a/u/. It may also regularly be pronounced as[u] as well.^[2]

• Blench, Roger (2005)."A survey of Dogon languages in Mali: Overview".OGMIOS: Newsletter of Foundation for Endangered Languages.3.02 (26):14–15. Retrieved2011-06-30..
• Hochstetler, J. Lee; Durieux, J.A.; E.I.K. Durieux-Boon (2004).Sociolinguistic Survey of the Dogon Language Area(PDF). SIL International. Retrieved2011-06-30.

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