The Gur languages belong to the
Niger-Congo languages. There are about 85 languages belonging to this group. They are spoken in southeast
Mali, northern
Côte d'Ivoire,
Burkina Faso, northern
Ghana and northern
Togo,
Benin and northwest
Nigeria. Like most Niger-Congo languages, Gur languages have a
noun class system. A common property of Gur languages is the verbal
aspect marking. Gur languages are
tonal. The tonal systems of Gur languages are rather divergent. Most Gur languages have a two tone
downstep system, but the tonal system of the Senufo subgroup is mostly analysed as a three level tone system (High, Mid, Low).
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