Gurunsi people information

Gurunsi, or Grunshi, are a set of related ethnic groups inhabiting northern Ghana and south and central Burkina Faso. Oral traditions of the Gurunsi hold...

Gurunsi languages, also known as the East Mabia languages, are a group of Gur languages, comprising about 20 languages spoken by the Gurunsi peoples....

about 11.1 million people. The other 48% of Burkina Faso's population is composed of more than 60 ethnic groups, mainly the Gurunsi, Senufo, Lobi, Bobo...

The Frafra are a subset of the Gurunsi peoples living in Upper East Region. The adopted name 'Frafra' is a corruption from colonial times of the salutation...

The Nuna people, or Nunuma, are subgroup of the Gurunsi people in Southern Burkina Faso, estimated 150,000 population, and Ghana. The Nuna are known for...

Fulani, Mossi, and notably the Gurunsi people, who played a crucial role as allies and soldiers. The word "Gurunsi" is derived from the Zarma language...

including the balangi in Sierra Leone and the gyil of the Dagara, Lobi and Gurunsi from Ghana, Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast. Similar instruments are played...

traditionally had a Cousinage/Joking relationship with the Frafra (Gurunsi) people. "Constancio Nakuma. An Introduction to the Dagaare Language. on DagaareLinguists'...

The Kabye (also known as Kabiye, Kabre, Cabrai), are a people living in the north central mountains and northern plains of Togo. They speak the Kabiye...

Faso, as well as Togo. The Gurunsi people are not actually closely related to each other and their classification as Gurunsi comes from a term used by...

Look up Gurunsi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gurunsi or Grusi may refer to: Gurunsi people, a people of northern Ghana and south and central Burkina...

who further expanded the kingdom by conquering the Kibissi and some Gurunsi peoples. Oubri, who ruled from around 1050 until 1090 CE, is often considered...

related people whose lands were also unified. This include the Mamprusi, Nanumba, Gonja, Mossi, Gurunsi (in particular the Frafra and Kusasi peoples), the...

a Gur people) than to their Voltaic neighbours the Gurunsi and Mossi, but they should be thought of as a southern extension of the Mandé people who live...

the styles of the Bwa, "gurunsi", and Mossi, and a confusion of the Bwa people with their neighbors to the west the Bobo people. This confusion was the...

and comprises a total of twenty-four alphabetic characters. Kasem is a Gurunsi language, in the Gur branch. It is spoken in the Upper Eastern Region of...

capturing the slaves in mounted razzias directed at the villages of the Gurunsi people. When Sanum died in 1890, he left no male heir, and all his brothers...

Niger-Congo dialect within the Grusi linguistic and Gurunsi cultural groups. There are an estimated 100,000 people who identify themselves as Fulse. Appiah, Kwame...

Bomu, Bobo-Wule) (3.) Koromfé (or Koromfe) Southern Gur (4.) East Mabia Gurunsi (or Grũsi) (20 languages, including Kabiye) (5.) Kirma–Lobi Kirma–Tyurama...

The Bariba people, self designation Baatonu (plural Baatombu), are the principal inhabitants of Borgou and Alibori Departments, Benin, and cofounders of...

Accra, The Guan peoples in the rain forest, The Dagombas, Mamprusi and related peoples in the North, The Gurunsi languages speaking peoples in the far North...

plural) Adjective: Burkinabé Mossi 52%, Fulani 8.4%, Gurma 7%, Bobo 4.9%, Gurunsi 4.6%, Senufo 4.5%, Bissa 3.7%, Lobi 2.4%, Dagara 2.4%, Tuareg/Ikelan 1...

Kabiyé, Kabiyè, Kabye, Kabyé, Kabyè, Cabrai or Cabrais) is an Eastern Gurunsi Gur language spoken primarily in northern Togo. Throughout the 20th century...

by the Mamprusi people. The Dagomba people are also present and dominant in the Region. The Tampulma language is one of the Gurunsi languages. It is...

goje is known by include goge or goje (Hausa, Zarma), gonjey (Dagomba, Gurunsi), gonje, (Mamprusi, Dagomba), njarka (Songhay), n'ko (Bambara, Mandinka...

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Traditional half-sleeved, hip-long, woven smocks or tunics (known as fugu in Gurunsi, riga in Hausa) – worn over a pair of baggy trousers—is another popular...

groups. The Mossi people, centrally located around the capital, Ouagadougou, account for 40% of the population while, to the south, Gurunsi, Gurma, Dagaaba...