GURMA LANGUAGES The people of Sissaala are located in the Upper West Region of Ghana. It is a very distinct language that has linguistic affinities with just its sister languages. Sissaala and its sister languages belong to the Gurma language group and they are Sissaala, Templima, Vagla, Mo, Chala and Ntrubo. Kasem is a language isolate but then, it has Sissaala borrowings which “may” call for Kasem being part of this family although Kasem is part of the Gurunsi ethnic group. The name Sissaala is a corruption of Nseba meaning “I said” in Sissaala. So from Nseba it gradually corrupted to Isela then Isala and gradually to its modern name Sissaala. There is no certainty as to where they had migrated from because oral history continues that they migrated from several areas to form clans. And the several clans came together to form a wider Sissaala community. Furthermore, the once unified Sissaala community separated over an issue or quarrel that came up due to the sharing of a head o...