Mpra

Mpra, also spelled Mprɛ, is an extinct language formerly spoken in the village of Butei in central Ghana, between the towns of Techiman and Tamale. It is known only from a 70-word list recorded in a 1931 article, with just five rememberers of some vocabulary still living as of a 2007 survey before the language passed entirely out of use. Roger Blench considers Mpra a possible language isolate, though its extremely limited documentation leaves the question open; an alternative view treats it as a highly divergent branch of the Kwa languages, since its numerals show apparent connections to the neighboring Gonja language even though most of its recorded vocabulary cannot be confidently matched to any relative.