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Gur languages

The Gur languages belong to the Niger-Congo languages. There are about 85 members belonging to this group. The about 20 Senufo languages are part of the Gur language group. They are spoken in southeast Mali, northern Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, northern Ghana and northern Togo, Benin and northwest Nigeria.

Koelle first mentions twelve Gur languages in his 1854 list (Polyglotta Africana), which represent ten languages in modern classification.

There are two main subgroups

and an number of languages which are not subclassified further.

See also: language