Gurma languages
{{Short description|Language family}}
{{Infobox language family
|name = Gurma
|altname = West Mabia
|region = Eastern Burkina Faso, northern Ghana, Togo and Benin, western Niger
|familycolor = Niger-Congo
|fam2 = Atlantic–Congo
|fam3 = Savannas
|fam4 = Gur
|fam5 = Northern
|glotto = gurm1249
|glottorefname = Gurma
}}
The Gurma languages, also known as the West Mabia languages,Bodomo, Adams. 2020. "[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342715507_MABIA_Its_Genesis_Geographical_Spread_and_some_Salient_Genetic_Features Mabia: Its Etymological Genesis, Geographical Spread, and some Salient Genetic Features]." In: Bodomo A., Abubakari H. & Issah, S. 2020. Handbook of the Mabia Languages of West Africa. Galda Verlag, Berlin, Germany. 400 pages, ISBN 978-3-96203-117-6 (Print) ISBN 978-3-96203-118-3 (E-Book) form part of the Oti–Volta subgroup of the Gur languages. They are spoken in eastern Burkina Faso, northern Ghana, Togo and Benin and western Niger.
The languages are:{{cite book |title=Les langues Oti-Volta |last = Manessy |first = Gabriel |date = 1975 |publisher=SELAF |location=Paris}}{{cite book |title =Contribution à la classification généalogique des langues voltaïques : le proto-central |last = Manessy |first = Gabriel |date = 1979 |publisher = PARIS |edition = Langues et civilisations à tradition orale №37 |location = SELAF}}{{cite book |title = Gur |last = Naden |author-link=Tony Naden |first = Tony |date = 1989 |publisher = University Press of America |location = Lanham, MD |pages = 141–168}}{{cite book |title=The Niger-Congo Languages |editor-last=Bendor-Samuel |editor-first=John T. |date=1989 |publisher=University Press of America |location=Lanham, MD}}{{cite book |last =|first= |title=African Languages — An Introduction |date=2000 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn= |editor-last=Heine |editor-first=Bernd |location=Cambridge |pages= |editor-last2=Nurse |editor-first2=Derek}}{{cite book |title= Niger–Congo |last=Williamson |first=Roger Blench |author-link=Roger Blench |name-list-style=amp |date=2000 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |pages=11–42}}