Kurama language

For the article on the Australian Aboriginal language, see Kurrama language.
Kurama
Tukurami
Native to Nigeria
Region Kano and Kaduna states
Native speakers
40,000 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 krh
Glottolog kura1249[2]
Person Bukurumi
People Akurumi
Language Tukurami

The Kurama or Kurumi language, Tukurami, is a Kainji language of Nigeria with over 100,000 speakers. Kurama speakers are found in the central northern Nigerian states of Kaduna, Bauchi State and Kano.

References

  1. Kurama at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kurama". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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