Moba language

Moba
Native to Togo, Ghana
Ethnicity Gurma people
Native speakers
440,000  (2004–2012)[1]
Niger–Congo
Latin (Moba alphabet)
Moba Braille
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
mfq  Moba (Togo)
bim  Bimoba (Ghana)
Glottolog moba1243[2]

Moba is a major language of the Gurma people of Togo and Ghana. However, in Ghana only 60% of ethnic Moba Gurma speak the language. There are also about 2,000 speakers in Burkina Faso.

References

  1. Moba (Togo) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Bimoba (Ghana) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Moba–Bimoba". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.