Gurma languages

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

  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.