Bua (language)
| Bua | ||
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Spoken in |
Chad | |
| speaker | 7,708 | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
boy |
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Bua is a language that is spoken by around 7,700 people (as of 1993) north of the Shari River around Korbol and Gabil in Chad . It is the largest representative of the small Bua language group of the Adamaua languages and is similar to the Fanian language .
literature
- PA Benton, Languages and Peoples of Bornu Vol. I , Frank Cass & Co: London 1912 (1st ed.) / 1968 (2nd ed.) Gives Barth's unpublished vocabulary of Bua on pp. 78-130.
- M. Gaudefroy-Demombynes, Documents sur les langues de l'Oubangui-Chari , Paris, 1907. Includes (pp. 107–122) a 200-word comparative list of Bua, Niellim, Fanian, and Tunia, with a brief grammar and some phrases collected by Decorse.
- J. Lukas, Zentralalsudanisches Studien , Hamburg, Friedrichsen, de Gruyter & Cie, 1937. Gives the wordlists of Nachtigal, zu Mecklenburg, Barth, and Gaudefroy-Demombynes for Bua (~ 400 words), Niellim (~ 200 words), and Koke (~ 100 words).
- AN Tucker & MA Bryan, The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa , Handbook of African Languages, part III, Oxford University Press for International African Institute, 1956. Summarizes the grammar of Bua and two relatives based on existing fieldwork.
Web links
- Ethnologue entry for Bua
- Map of Bua language from the LL-Map project
- Information on Bua language from the MultiTree project
Individual evidence
- ↑ Explanation of the language code at SIL international (accessed on August 6, 2011)