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Lame language

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Lame
Tu-Gura
Native toNigeria
RegionBauchi State
Native speakers
(10,000 cited 1995)[1]
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

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  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.