Gourmanché

Gourmanchéma Aman
Gulimancema
Native to	Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, Niger
Ethnicity	Gurma people
Native speakers	(900,000 cited 1999–2012)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Gur Northern Oti–Volta Gurma Gourmanchéma Aman
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gux
Glottolog	gour1243

People	Bigulimanceba
Language	Migulimancema

Gourmanchéma (Goulmacema, Gourma, Gourmantche, Gulimancema, Gulmancema, Gurma) is a major language of the Gurma people spoken in Burkina Faso, northern Togo and Benin, and Niger.

All nouns in the language are classified into eight classes, identified by their prefixes and suffixes in both singular and plural. All mass nouns, states of existence, languages, for example, begin with the prefix mi- and end with the suffix -ma (that is, they take the circumfix mi—ma), as in blood (misuama), water (minyima), sand (mitambima), fire (mifantama), existence (miyema), state of being crazy (migadima), Gourmantché language (migourmantchema). All trees have a set of circumfixes bu—bu and i—di in the singular and plural, as in busaabu (shea tree) and isaandi (shea trees).