Lame language

Lame
Tu-Gura
Native toNigeria
RegionBauchi State
Native speakers
(10,000 cited 1995)
Dialects
Language codes
ISO 639-3bma
Glottologlame1257
Gura
PersonBa-Gura
PeopleMo-Gura
LanguageTu-Gura

Lame is a Jarawan dialect cluster spoken Nigeria. The Rufu (Ruhu, Rùhû) and Mbaru (Mbárù) dialects are extinct as of 1987. Blench (2019) also lists Gura as a variety. Gura was documented and described by Blench in 2025.

References

  1. 1 2 Lame at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. 1 2 Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
  3. ↑ Blench, Roger. 2025. An introduction to Gura [bma, a previously undocumented Jarawan Bantu language of Central Nigeria]. Cambridge: Kay William Educational Foundation (KWEF).
  4. ↑ Blench, Roger. 2025. Gura dictionary. Cambridge: Kay William Educational Foundation (KWEF).