Lame language should not be confused with Lamé language.
Lame | |
Nativename: | Tu-Gura |
States: | Nigeria |
Region: | Bauchi State |
Speakers: | 10,000 |
Date: | 1995 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
Fam3: | Volta-Congo |
Fam4: | Benue–Congo |
Fam5: | Bantoid |
Fam6: | Southern Bantoid |
Fam7: | Bantu |
Fam8: | Mbam-Bube-Jarawan |
Fam9: | Jarawan |
Fam10: | Nigerian Jarawan |
Fam11: | Lame–Gwa |
Iso3: | bma |
Glotto: | lame1257 |
Glottorefname: | Lame |
Dia1: | Rufu |
Dia2: | Mbaru |
Dia3: | Gura |
Person: | Ba-Gura |
People: | Mo-Gura |
Language: | Tu-Gura |
Root: | Gura[1] |
Lame is a Bantu dialect cluster spoken Nigeria. The Rufu (Ruhu) and Mbaru dialects are extinct as of 1987. Blench (2019) also lists Gura as a dialect.[2]