Bua language

Bua language

language
name=Bua
states=Chad
speakers=7,708
iso3=bub
familycolor=Niger-Congo
fam2=Atlantic-Congo
fam3=Volta-Congo
fam4=North
fam5=Adamawa-Ubangi
fam6=Adamawa
fam7=Mbum-Day
fam8=Bua

The Bua language is spoken by some 7,708 people (as of 1993) north of the Chari River around Korbol and Gabil in Chad. It is the largest member of the small Bua subgroup of the Mbum-Day subgroup of the Adamawa languages. It is mutually comprehensible with Fanian.

References

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bub Ethnologue entry for Bua]

Further reading

* P. A. Benton, "Languages and Peoples of Bornu Vol. I", Frank Cass & Co:London 1912 (1st ed.)/1968 (2nd ed.) Gives Barth's unpublished vocabulary of Bua on pp. 78-130.
* M. Gaudefroy-Demombynes, "Documents sur les langues de l'Oubangui-Chari", Paris, 1907. Includes (pp. 107-122) a 200-word comparative list of Bua, Niellim, Fanian, and Tunia, with a brief grammar and some phrases collected by Decorse.
* J. Lukas, "Zentralsudanisches Studien", Hamburg, Friedrichsen, de Gruyter & Cie, 1937. Gives the wordlists of Nachtigal, zu Mecklenburg, Barth, and Gaudefroy-Demombynes for Bua (~400 words), Niellim (~200 words), and Koke (~100 words).
* A. N. Tucker & M. A. Bryan, "The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa", Handbook of African Languages, part III, Oxford University Press for International African Institute, 1956. Summarizes the grammar of Bua and two relatives based on existing fieldwork.


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