Gourmanchéma

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Gourmanchéma (Goulmacema, Gourma, Gourmantche, Gulimancema, Gulmancema, Gurma) is a major language of the Gurma people spoken in from Burkina Faso across northern Togo and Benin and as far as Niger. All nouns within this language are classified into eight noun classes, identified by their prefixes and suffixes in both singular and plural. All mass nouns, states of existence, languages, for example, begin with the prefix mi- and end with the suffix -ma (that is, they take the circumfix mi—ma), as in blood (misuama), water (minyima), sand (mitambima), fire (mifantama), existence (miyema), state of being crazy (migadima), Gourmantché language (migourmantchema). All trees have a set of circumfixes bu—bu and i—di in the singular and plural, as in busaabu (shea tree) and isaandi (shea trees).
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Names (more)

[br] Gourmeg
[de] Gurma
[en] Gourmanchéma language
[fr] Gourmantché
[hr] Gourmanchéma jezik
[sw] Kigourmanchema

Language type : Living

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Technical notes

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Following BCP 47 the recommended tag for this language is gux.

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ISO 639 Codes

ISO 639-3 : gux

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Sources

Authority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: gux

Freebase ISO 639-3 : gux
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