Bulu language

Bulu language

Bulu is the 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. Colonial and missionary groups formerly used Bulu as a "lingua franca" in the region for commercial, educational, and religious purposes, though it is today becoming less frequent in those spheres. Dialects include Bene, Yelinda, Yembana, Yengono, and Zaman.

Bulu speakers are concentrated primarily in Cameroon's South Province, with the largest number at Ebolowa and Sangmélima. Some speakers live in the Nyong-et-Mfoumou division of the Centre and the Haut-Nyong division of the East.

Bulu is a Bantu language. It is part of the Yaunde-Fang language group and is intelligible with Eton, Ewondo, and Fang.

References

*Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. " [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bum Bulu: A Language of Cameroon] ". "Ethnologue: Languages of the World", Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Accessed 2 June 2006.


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