The Mamprusi language is spoken in a broad belt across the northern parts of the Northern Region of Ghana, stretching west to east from Yizeesi to Nakpanduri and centred on the towns of Gambaga, Nalerigu and Walewale.
Within Gur it belongs to the Western Oti–Volta subgroup, and particularly its southeastern cluster of six to eight languages (Naden 1988, 1989).
Xavier Plissart,[4] and a translation of the New Testament is in print,[5] a sample of which can be read and heard online.
It is also spoken by some emigrated communities in parts of Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, and Mali.
Mampruli has ten phonemic vowels: five short and five long vowels: Mampruli is written in an orthography based on the Latin alphabet, with the addition of the letters ɛ, ŋ, ɔ.