Busuu language

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Busuu
Native to Cameroon
Region North West Province, Menchum Division, Furu-Awa Subdivision, Furu-Awa and Furu-Nangwa villages.
Extinct Late 2000s [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bju
Glottolog busu1244
ELP Busuu

Busuu is an unclassified Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon. According to Ethnologue it is extinct. As of 2005, there were 3 speakers of the language. [2] Busuu is an endangered language.

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Classification

In the Furu-Awa Subdivision in northern Cameroon bordering to Nigeria, three missions of ALCAM (Atlas Linguistique du Cameroun) between 1984 and 1986 investigated three non-Jukunoid languages, among which Bikya and Bishuo are probably Beboid, but Busuu has been unable to be classified. All of these languages were spoken only by a few older inhabitants of the five villages Furu-Awa, (Furu-)Nangwa (Busuu-speaking), (Furu-)Turuwa, (Furu-)Sambari (Bishuo-speaking) and Furubana (Bikya-speaking). Lexical analysis has shown that while Bishuo has 24% lexical similarity with neighbouring Beboid languages, Nsaa and Nooni and Bikya have 16% resp. 17% similarity with them, and Busuu has just 8% resp. 7%. [3]

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Notes

  1. ↑ Busuu at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed Access logo transparent.svg
  2. ↑ Ltd, Hymns Ancient & Modern (March 2005). ThirdWay. Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd. p. 33. Retrieved 1 January 2011.
  3. ↑ Breton, Roland: Is there a Furu language group? An investigation on the Cameroon-Nigeria border in Journal of West African Languages Vol. 23, Number 2, http://www.journalofwestafricanlanguages.org/Volume23.aspx Archived 2012-02-18 at the Wayback Machine


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