"Juula" redirects here. For the villages in Estonia, see Juula, Tartu County and Juula, Rapla County.
Djoula Land
Total population
2.2 million
Regions with significant populations
West Africa
Languages
Dyula, French, English
Religion
Predominantly Sunni Muslim
Related ethnic groups
Mandinka, Bambara, Jakhanke
The Dyula (Dioula or Juula) are a Mande ethnic group inhabiting several West African countries, including Mali, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Burkina Faso.
Characterized as a highly successful merchant caste, Dyula migrants began establishing trading communities across the region in the fourteenth century. Since business was often conducted under non-Muslim rulers, the Dyula developed a set of theological principles for Muslim minorities in non-Muslim societies. Their unique contribution of long-distance commerce, Islamic scholarship and religious tolerance were significant factors in the peaceful expansion of Islam in West Africa.[citation needed]
The Dyula (Dioula or Juula) are a Mande ethnic group inhabiting several West African countries, including Mali, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Burkina Faso...
Look up Dyula in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dyula may refer to: Dyulapeople, of Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast Dyula language, their Niger-Congo...
Dyula (or Jula, Dioula, Julakan ߖߎ߬ߟߊ߬ߞߊ߲) is a language of the Mande language family spoken mainly in Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Mali, and also in...
source for "Gullah" are the Dyula ethnic group of West Africa, from whom the American Gullah might be partially descended. The Dyula civilization had a large...
in Iran Jula (name) Dioula language spoken in western Africa Jula or Dyulapeople, western Africa This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...
south of Bondoukou, the Abron gradually extended their hegemony over the Dyulapeople in Bondoukou, who were recent arrivals from the market city of Begho...
Wattara (Ouattarra) Empire. Ouattara is Muslim and is a member of the Dyulapeople. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1965 from the Drexel Institute...
constrained compared to other trading communities such as the Jakhanke and Dyulapeople, they founded Nyamina and Sansanding during this early period, and Barouéli...
upon Soninke as well as related Manding-speaking communities (such as the Dyula and Mandinka) in what is now Mali, Guinea, Senegal, and The Gambia. The...
Mali. The Bambara language, mutually intelligible with the Manding and Dyula languages, has become the principal inter-ethnic language in Mali and one...
the west, Mande languages are widely spoken, the most predominant being Dyula (also spelled Jula or Dioula), others including Bobo, Samo, and Marka. Peul...
Dyulapeople moved into the area in the sixteenth century and extended their rule by controlling trade networks within villages of the Senufo people in...
Toure was born c. 1830 in Manyambaladugu, the son of Kemo Lanfia Toure, a Dyula weaver and merchant, and Sokhona Camara. The family moved to Sanankoro soon...
Gur-speaking agriculturalists: primarily the Senufo people and Tyefo people. Starting in the 16th century, Dyula speakers, an important branch of the Mandé, migrated...
Mali between language groups. (Bambara is also very close to the Dyula language (Dyula: Jula or Julakan; French: Dioula), spoken mainly in Côte d'Ivoire...
Faced with Toure's expanding Wassoulou Empire, some of the leaders of the Dyula community in Bamako began making overtures to join the anti-French alliance...
politically and socially motivated, and are mainly sung in his native language Dyula, French and English, though he occasionally uses other languages, for example...
Mamprusi people are now adherents of Islam. The Mamprusi began converting to Islam in the 17th century as a result of the influence of Dyula merchants...
rivers.... Possibly Banyun served as a generic term for "trader," much as dyula identifies Mande traders engaged in long-distance commerce (Map 9). Mandinka...
from Dyula intermediaries in the first decade of the 20th century. See Ethnicity and the Making of History in Northern Ghana (2006: 80-81). Dyula use of...
languages Mandinka people, a West African ethnic group The Mandé peoples who speak Manding languages: Mandinka, Malinké, Bambara, and Dyula Manding Mountains...
diets. Every four days, Dogon people participate in markets with neighboring tribes, such as the Fulani and the Dyula. The Dogon primarily sell agricultural...
having changed its location." Originally a Dyula trading center, Bondoukou was conquered by the Abron, an Akan people, in the early seventeenth century; it...
Coast is a Francophone country, and in 2024, French is spoken by 10 million people out of 28.9 million (33.61%). The seventy or so indigenous languages fall...
dialects under this name) East Marka (Dafin) (Burkina Faso, Mali) Bambara–Dyula (Northeastern Manding; Mali, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast) Eastern Maninka...
including newspapers, mass mobilization posters and public information Dyula language is a Mandé language spoken in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire and Mali...
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