Bo-rukul
| Barkul (Bo-Rukul) | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Nigeria (State of Plateau ) | |
| speaker | 2,000 (1999) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
mae |
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The Bo-Rukul language (ISO 639-3: mae; also “kaleri” , mabo-barkul, mabo-barukul) is a platoid language spoken by a total of 2,000 people in the Nigerian state of Plateau in the villages of Barkul, Mabo, Richa and Mwa is spoken in the local government area of Bokkos .
There are two dialects spoken within the language, bo and rukul, both by 1,000 speakers each. Together with the languages Fyam [pym] and Horom [hoe], both from Nigeria , the Bo-Rukul forms the subgroup of the southern plateau languages . Culturally, the Kaleri are similar to the Kulere, but the language comes from the Chadian language group . The Bo-Rukul speakers mostly also speak Haussa [hau], Kulere [kul] and English [eng] as second languages .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ mae
- ↑ (1999 R. Blench)
- ↑ Ethnologue