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Bulu language
| Bulu | |
|---|---|
| Bulu-Bene | |
| Bulu (Nkobô Bulu) | |
| Region | Cameroon |
| Ethnicity | Bulu people |
Native speakers | 860,000 (2007)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bum |
| Glottolog | bulu1251 |
A.74[2] | |
Bulu is a Bantu language of the Bulu people of Cameroon. The language had 174,000 native speakers in 1982, with some 800,000 second language speakers in 1991. Its dialects include Bene, Yelinda, Yembana, Yengono, and Zaman. Bulu was formerly used by colonial and missionary groups as a lingua franca in the region for commercial, educational, and religious purposes, though it is today becoming less frequent in those spheres.
Bulu belongs to the group of Beti languages and is intelligible with Eton, Ewondo, and Fang.
- ^ Bulu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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