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Requested move 10 April 2016[edit]

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The result of the move request was: Moved. No objection after a full listing period. (non-admin closure) — Amakuru (talk) 10:57, 18 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Gagu language → Gban language – The name "Gban" is an autolinguonym (while "Gagou"/"Gagu" is an exolinguonym from the Guro language) and also is the name for this language/people that is used as default in almost all the modern literature on Mande: 1. Le Saout J. Étude descriptive du gba̰ (Côte-d'Ivoire) - Phonétique et phonologie (1976); 2. Le Saout J. Faits de dérivation nominale en gban (1972/2003) 3. Chauveau J.-P., J. Richard. Bodiba en Côte d'Ivoire. Du terroir à l'État_ petite production paysanne et salariat agricole dans un village Gban (1983) 4. Chauveau J.-P. Intergenerational Relations with a History. Access to Land and Local Governmentality in the Gban Region (Côte d’Ivoire) (2005) 5. Chauveau J.-P. Les rapports entre générations ont une histoire. Accès à la terre et gouvernementalité locale en pays gban (Côte d’Ivoire) (2005) 6. Chauveau J.-P., J. Richard. Bodiba en Côte d'Ivoire. Du terroir à l'État_ petite production paysanne et salariat agricole dans un village Gban (1983) 7. Chauveau J.-P., J. Richard. Organisation socio-économique Gban et économie de plantation (1975) 8. Aka K., G. Guiraud. Les instruments de musique Gban (Région centre-ouest de la Côte d'Ivoire) (2008) 9. Kotchmar E. La morphologie des adjectifs en gban (2007) 10. Angenor Y. N. A first approach to the morphosyntax of gban (thesis, Bouaké, 2010) 11. Zheltov A. Le système des marqueurs de personnes en gban: Morphème syncrétique ou syncrétisme des morphèmes? (2005) 12. Fedotov M. Non-verbal predication in Gban (2015) 13. Vydrin V. On the problem of the Proto-Mande homeland (2009) 14. Vydrin V. South Mande Reconstruction: Initial consonants (2007) 15. Vydrine V. Negation in South Mande (2009) 16. Pozdniakov K. Perspectives of comparative studies on the Mande and West Atlantic language groups: An approach to the quantitative comparative linguistics (1991) 17. Hyman L. M. Do tones have features? (2010) 18. Kießling R. On the origin of Niger-Congo nominal classification (2013). Cf. also the Ethnologue entry that was corrected recently. Chokingyou (talk) 23:55, 10 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Support Gban does indeed appear to be the more commonly used name, as is clear even from a quick glance at the titles in glotolog's bibliography on the language. And if it's an endonym then all the better. Uanfala (talk) 22:50, 17 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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