Lame language

{{Short description|Bantu dialect cluster of Nigeria}} {{distinguish|Lamé language}} {{Infobox language |name=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=[[Jarawan languages|Jarawan]] |fam8=Nigerian Jarawan |fam9=Lame–Gwa |iso3=bma |glotto=lame1257 |glottorefname=Lame |dia1=Rufu |dia2=Mbaru |dia3=Gura }} {{Infobox ethnonym|person=Ba-Gura|people=Mo-Gura|language=Tu-Gura|root=Gura<ref name="BlenchAtlas4">{{Cite book|title=An Atlas of Nigerian Languages|last=Blench|first=Roger|publisher=Kay Williamson Educational Foundation|year=2019|edition=4th|location=Cambridge}}</ref>}}

'''Lame''' is a [[Jarawan languages|Jarawan]] dialect cluster spoken [[Nigeria]]. The Rufu (Ruhu) and Mbaru dialects are extinct as of 1987.<ref name="e18"/> Blench (2019) also lists Gura as a dialect.<ref name="BlenchAtlas4">{{Cite book|title=An Atlas of Nigerian Languages|last=Blench|first=Roger|publisher=Kay Williamson Educational Foundation|year=2019|edition=4th|location=Cambridge}}</ref>

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{{Mbam languages}} [[Category:Jarawan languages]] [[Category:Languages of Nigeria]]