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

The Gurma languages 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:[1][2][3][4][5][6]

References

  1. ^ Manessy, Gabriel (1975). Les langues Oti-Volta. Paris: SELAF.
  2. ^ Manessy, Gabriel (1979). Contribution à la classification généalogique des langues voltaïques : - le proto-central (Langues et civilisations à tradition orale №37 ed.). SELAF: PARIS.
  3. ^ Naden, Tony (1989). Gur. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. pp. 141–168.
  4. ^ Bendor-Samuel, John T. [ed.] (1989). The Niger-Congo Languages. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help)
  5. ^ Heine, Bernd and Derek Nurse [eds] (2000). African Languages — An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help)
  6. ^ Williamson, Kay and Roger Blench (2000). Niger–Congo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 11–42.