Lame language
Lame is a dialect cluster of the Southern Bantoid Jarawan languages of Nigeria. The Rufu *Ruhu) and Mbaru dialects are extinct as of 1987.[1] Blench (2019) also lists Gura as a dialect.[3]
| Lame | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Bauchi State |
Native speakers | (10,000 cited 1995)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bma |
| Glottolog | lame1257[2] |
| Gura[3] | |
|---|---|
| Person | Ba-Gura |
| People | Mo-Gura |
| Language | Tu-Gura |
References
- Lame at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Lame". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
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