Buraka

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Buraka

Spoken in

Central African Republic , Democratic Republic of the Congo
speaker 3,800 (1996)
Linguistic
classification

Ubangic languages

  • Sere-Ngbaka-Mba
    Buraka
Language codes
ISO 639-3

bkg

Buraka ( ISO 639-3 : bkg; also bolaka, boraka, bouraka) is a ubangische language that a total of 2,500 people in the Central African Republic (as of 1996) along the river Oubangui and 1300 in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the Ubangi province Northern Ubangi is spoken.

Buraka belongs to the Ngbaka-Mba group of the Sere-Ngbaka-Mba languages ​​and is closely related to the Gbanziri language [gbg], with which it forms the Gbanzili language group within the western Ngbaka language branch.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The language code bkgat SIL International as the registration body for the ISO 639-3 standard
  2. ↑ Ethnologue, Information about Buraka (paid access)
  3. ^ Ethnologue, classification scheme of the Sere-Ngbaka-Mba languages