Gurma languages

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.

Gurma
Geographic
distribution		Eastern Burkina Faso, northern Ghana, Togo and Benin, western Niger
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo
Glottologgurm1249[1]

The languages are:[2][3][4][5][6][7]

References
  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Gurma". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: 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.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  6. Heine, Bernd and Derek Nurse [eds] (2000). African Languages — An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  7. Williamson, Kay and Roger Blench (2000). Niger–Congo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 11–42.


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