Moba or Moba–Bimoba is a major language of the

Moba people The Moba people, or Bimoba, are a Gur-speaking ethnic group from North-eastern Ghana, Uppper East and North-western Togo. Population centres in Ghana include Nakpanduri, Bimbagu, Najong 1 and 2, Kambatiak, Gbankoni and Bunkpurugu. The Bimoba num ...

Togo Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to Ghana–Togo border, the west, Benin to Benin–Togo border, the east and Burkina Faso to Burkina Faso–Togo border, the north. It is one of the le ...

and

Ghana Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t ...

. However, in Ghana only 60% of ethnic Bimoba speak the language. There are also about 2,000 Moba speakers in

Burkina Faso Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa, bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Ivory Coast to the southwest. It covers an area of 274,223 km2 (105,87 ...

. It has two dialects (Moba In Togo and Burkina Faso and Bimoba in Ghana). The language cluster is also known as Moba–Bimoba.

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Moba is spoken by the

, a subgroup of the

Gurma people Gurma (also called Gourma or Gourmantché) is an ethnic group living mainly in northeastern Ghana, Burkina Faso, around Fada N'Gourma, and also in northern areas of Togo and Benin, as well as southwestern Niger. They might include the Bassar ...

. Moba is part of the Gurma subgroup of the

Gur languages The Gur languages, also known as Central Gur or Mabia, belong to 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 Ivor ...

. It is related to the

Konkomba language Konkomba is a Gurma language spoken in Ghana, Togo Geography Konkomba is spoken in Ghana ( Northern Region, Volta Region, Brong Ahafo Region, Eastern Region and Accra), and Togo ( Savanes Region, Kara Region and Plateaux Region). Dial ...

of the

Konkomba people Konkomba may refer to: * Konkomba people, an ethnic group of Ghana, Togo and Burkina Faso * Konkomba language spoken by this people {{Disambiguation ...

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Moba dictionary : https://www.webonary.org/moba Languages of Togo Gurma languages Languages of Ghana {{gur-lang-stub

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