Bolgo

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Bolgo

Spoken in

Chad
speaker 1,800
Linguistic
classification

Niger-Congo

Language codes
ISO 639-3

bvo

Bolgo is an critically endangered member of the Bua languages ​​in Chad . The language is spoken by over 1,800 people in the towns of Koya, Boli, Gagne and Bedi southeast of Melfi .

It has two main dialects , the Bolgo Werel around Daguela and the Bolgo Mengo around Aloa-Niagara , as well as a dialect called Bolgo Bormo. The main dialects are also called Bolgo Dugag and Bolgo Kubar ("small" and "large" Bolgo). Big Bolgo is spoken in the north, delimited by the languages Mogum and Saba ; small Bolgo is spoken in the south, delimited by the closely related language Koke and Chadian Arabic .

The typical word order is subject-verb-object , noun-adjective, aspect-verb, possessor-possessor. There is no real plural, but -gi serves as a collective marker. The verb is negated with ta , placed at the end of the sentence.

Language examples:

  • in-nāṇ rīm nāṇ n'ini (give-me water to drink), "give me water to drink"
  • ibéri koko ao léti (man marries two women), "the man married two women".

literature

  • Gene. de Rendinger, "Contribution à l'étude des langues nègres du Center Africain", Journal de la Société des Africanistes , XIX-II, 1949, pp. 143-194.
  • Peter Fuchs, 1970, The Hadjerai Religion: Cult and Authority. Berlin. (Contains an ethnolinguistic map of the region.)
  • Ethnologue

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ (SIL 1993.) According to de Rendinger