Gurma languages

Gurma
Geographic
distribution		 Eastern Burkina Faso, northern Ghana, Togo and Benin, western Niger
Linguistic classification

Niger–Congo

Glottolog gurm1249[1]

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:[2][3][4][5][6][7]

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Gurma". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  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 and Derek Nurse [eds] (2000). African Languages — An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  7. ↑ Williamson, Kay and Roger Blench (2000). Niger–Congo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 11–42.
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