Gwandara yare ne na Chadi ta Yamma, kuma shi ne mafi kusanci daga dangin harshen Hausa . Ana magana da yarukanta da yawa a arewacin Najeriya, galibi a yankin tsakiyar arewacin Najeriya da kusan mutane 30,000. Ana samun su da yawa a Abuja, Niger, Kaduna, Kogi da kuma wani garin da aka tsugunar dasu a Sabuwar Karshi, ƙaramar hukumar Karu, jihar Nasarawa. Sabon Karshi yana da sarki mai daraja ta farko a Gwandara Muhammadu Bako III (PhD). Al’umar Gwandara suna daga cikin kabilun asali na FCT Abuja, babban birnin tarayyar Najeriya. Yaren Nimbia yana da tsarin adadi na adadi guda biyu (sun lissafa a cikin tushe 12), yayin da sauran yarukan, kamar su Karshi da ke ƙasa, suna da tsarin adadi: Ana tunanin cewa Nimbia, wacce aka keɓe daga sauran Gwandara, ta sami tsarinta na yanayin furuci daga maƙwabtan Yaren Gabas . Yana da duodecimal har ma ga ikon tushe goma sha biyu:   Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Harshen Gwandara". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.