See Also: Gur languages(encyclopedia)
Tai languages(encyclopedia)
Kwa languages(encyclopedia)
Kru languages(encyclopedia)
Uralic languages(encyclopedia)
Munda languages(encyclopedia)
Mongolian languages(encyclopedia)
Mon-Khmer languages(encyclopedia)
Maya languages(encyclopedia)
Kordofanian languages(encyclopedia)

Gur languages (sh)




formerly Voltaic languages

Branch of the huge Niger-Congo language family.

Gur comprises some 85 languages and language complexes spoken by about 20,000,000 people mainly in Burkina Faso, northern C?te d'Ivoire, northern Ghana, and northern Togo. Moore in Burkina Faso has the largest number of speakers, more than 6,000,000 (see Mossi). Once considered a Gur language, Dogon is spoken by about 600,000 people in Mali; it is of uncertain affiliation within Niger-Congo.