Ntcham_language

Ntcham language

Ntcham language

Gur language spoken in Togo and Ghana

Not to be confused with Bassari language (Senegal).

Ntcham, or Basari, is a language of the Gurma people in Togo and Ghana. Akaselem (Tchamba) is frequently listed as a separate language.

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Long vowels are indicated by doubling the letter ‹aa, ii, ɔɔ, uu› and two vowels are always long ‹ee, oo›. The tones are represented by acute accents for high tone and grave accents for low tone, on the vowels and the consonants m, n, b, l : ‹ḿ, ń, b́, ĺ›, ‹m̀, ǹ, b̀, l̀›.

References

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    Ntcham at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Closed access icon
    Akaselem at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Closed access icon


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