Nawuri (language)
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speaker | 14,000 (2003 GILLBT) | |
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Nawuri is the language of the Nawuri people in Ghana with only 14,000 speakers (2003 GILLBT ) in the central east, mainly on the west bank of the Oti River at the Volta Reservoir .
Nawuri comes closest to the Gikyode language . Communication with Chumburung is not possible. The greatest lexical correspondence is found with the Buipe dialect of the Gonja language (72%).