Boko (Mande language)
| Boko (Bokonya) | ||
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Spoken in |
Benin , Nigeria | |
| speaker | 110,000 (1995) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
bqc |
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Boko (ISO 639-3 is bqc) is a Mande language spoken by 110,000 people, 70,000 of them in the Benin province of Borgou and 40,000 in Nigeria in the states of Niger (LGA Borgu) and Kebbi (LGA Bagudo).
It is most closely related to the Busa [bqp] language, and has a 90% lexical similarity to it. Together with the languages Bokobaru [bus], Tyenga [tye] and Schanga [sho] from Nigeria, it forms the subgroup of the Busa languages. In the past, Boko native speakers mostly spoke Hausa , Yoruba , Bariba and Fulfulde as a second language . Today they almost exclusively speak French as a second language.