Lame language

Bantu dialect cluster of Nigeria
Lame
Tu-Gura
Native toNigeria
RegionBauchi State
Native speakers
(10,000 cited 1995)[1]
Language family
Niger–Congo?
  • Atlantic–Congo
    • Volta-Congo
      • Benue–Congo
        • Bantoid
          • Southern Bantoid
            • Bantu
              • Mbam-Bube-Jarawan
                • Jarawan
                  • Nigerian Jarawan
                    • Lame–Gwa
                      • Lame
Dialects
  • Rufu
  • Mbaru
  • Gura
Language codes
ISO 639-3bma
Glottologlame1257
Gura[2]
PersonBa-Gura
PeopleMo-Gura
LanguageTu-Gura

Lame is a Bantu dialect cluster spoken Nigeria. The Rufu *Ruhu) and Mbaru dialects are extinct as of 1987.[1] Blench (2019) also lists Gura as a dialect.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Lame at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.


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