| Turka | |
| Nativename: | Tyurama |
| Region: | Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast |
| Speakers: | 37,000 |
| Date: | 1998 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
| Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
| Fam3: | Gur |
| Fam4: | Southern Gur |
| Fam5: | Kirma–Tyurama |
| Iso3: | tuz |
| Glotto: | turk1306 |
| Glottorefname: | Turka |
Turka (Turuka) or Curama (Cuuramã, Tchourama, Tyurama), is a Gur language which is spoken by the Turka people in southwest Burkina Faso. Its closest linguistic relative is the Cerma language: however, they are not mutually intelligible. Due to economic, religious and educational influence, many Turka people also speak Arabic and Jula.[1]
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| A | Ǝ | B | C | D | E | Ɛ | F | G | Gb | H | I | Ɩ | J | K | L | M | N | Ɲ | Ŋm | O | Ɔ | P | R | S | T | U | V | W | Y |
| a | ǝ | b | c | d | e | ɛ | f | g | gb | h | i | ɩ | j | k | l | m | n | ɲ | ŋm | o | ɔ | p | r | s | t | u | v | w | y |
Nasalization is indicated with a tilde on the vowel : .
The tones are indicated using diacritics on the vowels or the syllabic nasals, with the acute accent for the high tone and the grave accent for the low tone.