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Preferred term

bumBulu  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • 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.

Entry terms

  • Bulu (Cameroon)
  • Bulu language

ISO 639-3 code

  • bum

Notation

  • bum

In other languages

  • Bulu

    French

  • boulou
  • Bulu

    German

  • bulu

    Italian

  • Portuguese

  • bulu

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/bum

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