Bure language

Bure
Native to Nigeria
Region Bauchi State
Ethnicity 500 (no date)[1]
Native speakers
 20 (2011)[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bvh
Glottolog bure1242[3]

Bure, also known as Bubbure, is an Afro-Asiatic language belonging to the Bole-Tangale group of the West branch of the Chadic family. It is spoken in northern Nigeria in the village of Bure (10°31’06.16”N, 10°20’03.00”E, Kirfi Local Government, Bauchi State, Nigeria) and in some small settlements nearby. The language is used mostly by a very few speakers, of great-grandparental generation. Except for Hausa, which is lingua franca in the area, Bure is surrounded by other Chadic languages such as Gera, Giiwo and Deno (Bole group). Compared to other languages of the same group (e.g. Bole or Karekare), the endangerment of Bure is by far the most critical.

Notes

  1. ↑ Bure language at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
  2. ↑ Bure at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  3. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Bure". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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