Busuu language
| Busuu | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Cameroon |
| Region | North West Province, Menchum Division, Furu-Awa Subdivision, Furu-Awa and Furu-Nangwa villages. |
Native speakers | (8 cited 1986)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bju |
| Glottolog | busu1244 |
| ELP | Busuu |
Busuu is an unclassified Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon. R Breton noted in 1986 that there were just 8 speakers left,[1] while as of 2005 there were 3 speakers of the language.[2]
Questionable classification into Beboid
In the Furu-Awa Subdivision (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 neighboring Beboid languages Nsaa and Nooni and Bikya has 16% resp. 17% similarity with them, Busuu has just 8% resp. 7%.[3]
See also
- busuu (an online network named after the Busuu language)
External links
Notes
- ^ a b Busuu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Ltd, Hymns Ancient & Modern (March 2005). ThirdWay. Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd. p. 33. Retrieved 1 January 2011.
- ^ 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
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