Gwamhi-Wuri

Facts

  • Language: Gwamhi-Wuri
  • Alternate names: Lyase, Lyase-Ne, Gwamhyə-Wuri-Mba, Gwamfi, "Banganci"
  • Language code: bga
  • Language family: Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Kainji, Western, Duka (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 16,000
  • Vulnerability: Vulnerable
  • Script:

More information:

    Ethnonym: Bangawa by Hausa, glossonym: Banganci; ‘Lyase’, mother tongue.

    "The Gwamhi-Wuri languages of the literature consist of a cluster of three languages, Gwamhyə, Wuri and Mba." (Blench 2012)