Gurma (language)
| Gurma ( Gulimancema ) | ||
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Spoken in |
Burkina Faso , Togo , Benin , Niger | |
| speaker | 813,000 (1999) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Official status | ||
| Recognized minority / regional language in |
 Niger
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
gux |
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Gurma (also called Goulmacema , Gourma , Gourmantche , Gulimancema , Gulmancema and Gourmanchéma ; ISO 639-3) is a main language of the Gurma people , which spreads from south-east Burkina-Faso via north Togo and north Benin to south-west Niger is.
The Gurma speakers call themselves Bigulimanceba and their language Migulimancema .
Gurma is a Gur language from the Niger-Congo language family and has a total of 813,000 speakers, 600,000 of them in Burkina Faso, 62,000 in Benin in the provinces of Atakora and Borgou , 30,000 in Niger near the border with Burkina Faso (as of 1998) and 121,000 in Togo with the main centers in Korbongou and Mandouri.
The ethnic group who speak this language are mainly the Bigulimanceba or Gurma . In Niger, the language is one of the national languages .