Jack (language)
Jack | ||
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Spoken in |
Equatorial Guinea | |
speaker | 40,000 | |
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Official status | ||
Recognized minority / regional language in |
Equatorial Guinea | |
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ISO 639 -1 |
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ISO 639 -2 |
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ISO 639-3 |
Bube (also Adeeyah, Adija, Bobe, Boobe, Boombe, Bubi, Ediya and Fernandian) is the Bantu language of the Bubi and is spoken by around 40,000 people in Equatorial Guinea .
It is common in the provinces of Bioko Norte and Bioko Sur .
Jack is written in the Latin script .
classification
Bube is a Northwest Bantu language and belongs to the Bube Benga group , which is classified as the Guthrie Zone A30.
It has the dialects North-Bobe, Southwest-Bobe and Southeast-Bobe.
Web links
- Ethnologue entry for Bube
- Language card (jack = number 7 on the card)
- Bube course (in Spanish) ( Memento from July 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive )