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=Bantu

|fam8=Mbam-Bube-Jarawan

|fam9=Jarawan

|fam10=Nigerian Jarawan

|fam11=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{{Cite book|title=An Atlas of Nigerian Languages|last=Blench|first=Roger|publisher=Kay Williamson Educational Foundation|year=2019|edition=4th|location=Cambridge}}}}

Lame is a Bantu dialect cluster spoken Nigeria. The Rufu (Ruhu) and Mbaru dialects are extinct as of 1987. Blench (2019) also lists Gura as a dialect.{{Cite book|title=An Atlas of Nigerian Languages|last=Blench|first=Roger|publisher=Kay Williamson Educational Foundation|year=2019|edition=4th|location=Cambridge}}