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