Gurma
West Mabia
Geographic
distribution		Eastern Burkina Faso, northern Ghana, Togo and Benin, western Niger
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo?
Glottologgurm1249

The Gurma languages, also known as the West Mabia languages,[1] form part of the Oti–Volta subgroup of the Gur languages. They are spoken in eastern Burkina Faso, northern Ghana, Togo and Benin and western Niger.

The languages are:[2][3][4][5][6][7]

References

  1. ↑ Bodomo, Adams. 2020. "Mabia: Its Etymological Genesis, Geographical Spread, and some Salient Genetic Features." In: Bodomo A., Abubakari H. & Issah, S. 2020. Handbook of the Mabia Languages of West Africa. Galda Verlag, Berlin, Germany. 400 pages, ISBN 978-3-96203-117-6 (Print) ISBN 978-3-96203-118-3 (E-Book)
  2. ↑ Manessy, Gabriel (1975). Les langues Oti-Volta. Paris: SELAF.
  3. ↑ Manessy, Gabriel (1979). Contribution à la classification généalogique des langues voltaïques : le proto-central (Langues et civilisations à tradition orale №37 ed.). SELAF: PARIS.
  4. ↑ Naden, Tony (1989). Gur. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. pp. 141–168.
  5. ↑ Bendor-Samuel, John T., ed. (1989). The Niger-Congo Languages. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
  6. ↑ Heine, Bernd; Nurse, Derek, eds. (2000). African Languages — An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  7. ↑ Williamson, Roger Blench (2000). Niger–Congo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 11–42.


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