Gourmanché language

Spoken in

Niger - Congo

• Atlantic - Congo Gur Northern Gur Oti - Volta Gurma languages

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Gurma (also Goulmacema, Gourmand, Gourmantche, Gulimancema, Gulmancema and Gourmanchéma called, ISO 639-3 ) is a major language of the Gurma - people, the spread of Southeastern Burkina Faso over northern Togo and north Benin to south-western Niger is.

The Speaker of the Gurma call themselves and their language Bigulimanceba Migulimancema.

The Gurma is a Gur language of the Niger - Congo language family and has a total of 813,000 speakers, of which 600,000 in Burkina Faso, 62,000 in Benin in the provinces Atakora and Borgou, 30,000 and in Niger near the border with Burkina Faso (as of 1998) 121,000 in Togo with the main centers Korbongou and Mandouri.

The ethnic group that speaks this language, are mainly the Bigulimanceba or Gurma. In Niger, the language is one of the national languages ​​.