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Turka people

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The Turka are an ethnic group in Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, and Mali.[1] They are part of the Gur people and speak the Turka language ("tuz"), a Gur language. The Turka population is estimated at 48,000-61,000.

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  1. ^ Olson, James Stuart (1996). The peoples of Africa : an ethnohistorical dictionary. Internet Archive. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press. p. 571. ISBN 978-0-313-27918-8.