The Lambas are an ethnic and linguistic group of people living in the Kéran and Doufelgou Districts ( Préfecture ) of the Kara Region in Northern Togo and in the Atakora and Donga Departments of Bénin , West Africa. The capital of the Kéran District is Kanté and the capital of the Doufelgou District is Niamtougou .
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32-762: A collection of closely related dialects that are grouped together as the Lama language . There are approximately 200,000 native speakers of Lama in Togo and Bénin. Lama most closely resembles the Kabiyé language spoken by the Kabiyé people in the Kozah and Binah Districts of Togo as well as in diaspora points. Lama and Kabiyé are classified under the Grusi, Eastern cluster of the Gur branch of
48-568: A separate branch of Atlantic–Congo , while other non-Central Gur languages are placed somewhat closer as separate branches within the Savannas continuum . Kleinewillinghöfer (2014) notes that the closest relatives of Gur appear to be several branches of the obsolete Adamawa family, since many "Adamawa" languages in fact share more similarities with various (Central) Gur languages than with other Adamawa languages. He proposes that early Gur-Adamawa speakers had cultivated guinea corn and millet in
64-539: A thick porridge ( la pâte ) that is the staple of their diet and that they brew into thick low-alcohol beer . They also grow yams and cassava , groundnuts (peanuts), beans, and fonio . The Lambas have migrated in search of fertile available land in Togo to the area along the North-South National Road No. 1 between Sokodé and Notsé, where they have founded numerous communities. In addition, they have migrated to Togo's capital city, Lomé, and
80-536: A wooded savanna environment. The regions on the map denote regional distribution of the Central Gur languages. The tree-diagram below denotes the relations between these languages and their closest relatives: The position of Dogoso–Khe in Southern Gur is not clear; it is not closely related to other members of the branch. Bodomo (2017) refers to the entire Central Gur group as Mabia . The term Mabia
96-736: Is a portmanteau of the two lexical innovations ma - 'mother' + bia 'child'. The following is a classification of the Mabia (or Central Gur) languages from Bodomo (2017), as cited in Bodomo (2020). Bodomo divides Mabia into three primary branches, namely West, East, and Central. The term Mabia , instead of Gur , is also used by Naden (2021). Naden (2021) lists the languages of the Southern/Eastern Mabia group as Dagbani , Hanga , Kantoosi , Kamara , Kusaal (Kusasi) , Mampruli (Mamprusi) , Nabit , Nanun/Nanuni (also considered
112-995: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Lamba people In Togo, the Lambas live the Center and West of the Kéran District; in the Togo Mountains on the Défalé Chain; in the Western reaches of Doufelgou District; in Eastern reaches of Doufelgou District North of the Binah River: and, in Niamtougou, in the Villages of Yaka and Agbandé. In Bénin,
128-559: The Niger-Congo languages . Also included in this cluster are Tem (Cotokoli), Bagou-Koussountou, Lukpa (Logba or Dompago), Delo (Ntribou), and Chala. Speakers of this cluster of languages constitute 28% of the population of Togo and are the second most widely spoken cluster of languages in Togo after the Gbé cluster that includes Éwé, Mina, and Waci. Gur languages The Gur languages , also known as Central Gur or Mabia , belong to
144-625: The Niger–Congo languages . They are spoken in the Sahelian and savanna regions of West Africa , namely: in most areas of Burkina Faso , and in south-central Mali , northeastern Ivory Coast , the northern halves of Ghana and Togo , northwestern Benin , and southwestern Niger . A few Gur languages are spoken in Nigeria . Additionally, a single Gur language, Baatonum , is spoken in Benin and in
160-684: The Lambas live in and around Boucoumbé (Boukamtié) in the Atakora Department and near Djougou and Bassila in the Donga Department . They also live in diaspora zones in the Central and Plateaux Regions of Togo, in border areas of Ghana, and in the capital cities of Lomé and Cotonou . The Lambas are primarily engaged in subsistence farming and small animal husbandry, especially chickens, guinea fowl, goats, pigs, and sheep. They grow millet and sorghum that they make into
176-448: The ancestor of Gur languages probably had a noun class system; many of today's languages have reduced this to a system of nominal genders or declensions or no longer have a class system. A common property of Gur languages is the verbal aspect marking. Almost all Gur languages are tonal , with Koromfé being a notable exception. The tonal systems of Gur languages are rather divergent. Most Gur languages have been described as following
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#1732772822722192-545: The economic capital of Bénin, Cotonou, in search of wage employment. Lamba men served in the colonial armies of Germany, Britain, and France as well as in the Togolese and Beninese armies in the years following the independences of the two countries. The Lambas refer to themselves and to their Language as Lama. Lamba is the name attributed to them in French and that continues to be used in the administration. In addition, all of
208-851: The extreme northwest of Nigeria. Three other single Gur languages, the Tusya , Vyemo and Tiefo languages , are spoken in Burkina Faso. Another unclassified Gur language, Miyobe , is spoken in Benin and Togo. In addition, Kulango , Loma and Lorhon , are spoken in Ghana, Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso. Additionally, a few Mossi speakers are in Senegal , and speakers of the Dagaare language are also found in Cameroon . The Samu languages of Burkina Faso are Gur languages. Like most Niger–Congo languages,
224-469: The inhabitants of the Doufelgou District of Togo were designated as Lossos by the colonial administration, including people who identify themselves as Lama and Nawdba. Therefore, Lambas from the Doufelgou District are still frequently called Losso. The two populations have exercised considerable mutual influence but their languages are different and do not resemble each other. The Lambas speak
240-455: The model of a two tone downstep system, but the languages of Oti-Volta branch and some others have three phonemic tones. Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle first mentions twelve Gur languages in his 1854 Polyglotta Africana , which represent ten languages in modern classification. Notably, he correctly identified these languages as being related to one another; his 'North-Eastern High Sudan' corresponds to Gur in modern classification. The Gur family
256-561: Was previously called Voltaic , following the French name (langues) Voltaïques (named after the Volta River ). It was once considered to be more extensive than it is often regarded today, including the Senufo languages and a number of small language isolates. The inclusion of Senufo within Gur has been rejected by many linguists, including Tony Naden . Williamson and Blench place Senufo as
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