| Bure | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Bauchi State |
| Ethnicity | 500 (no date)1 |
Native speakers | 20 (2011)1 |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bvh |
| Glottolog | bure1242 |
| ELP | Bure |
Bure, also known as Bubbure, is an Afro-Asiatic language belonging to the Bole-Tangale group of the West branch of the Chadic family. It is spoken in northern Nigeria in the village of Bure (10°31’06.16”N, 10°20’03.00”E, Kirfi Local Government, Bauchi State, Nigeria) and in some small settlements nearby.2 The language is used mostly by a very few speakers, of great-grandparental generation. Except for Hausa, which is lingua franca in the area, Bure is surrounded by other Chadic languages such as Gera, Giiwo and Deno (Bole group).345
Compared to other languages of the same group (e.g. Bole or Karai-Karai), the endangerment of Bure is by far the most critical.6
References
References
- Bure at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- Batic, Gian Claudio (2023). "Grammatical Sketch of Bure" (published 2014). ISBN 978-3896455284.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - Batic, Gian Claudio (2023). "Documenting Bure, a Chadic Language of Northern Nigeria: the Clause Structure" (published 2013).
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - Batic, Gian Claudio (2023). "Documenting Bure, a Chadic Language of Northern Nigeria: the Clause Structure" (published 2011).
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - Batic, Gian Claudio (2023). "The Bure Language: an Overview" (published 2011).
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - Haruna, Andrew (2023). "Language Death: The case of Bubburè in Southern Bauchi Area, Northern Nigeria" (published 2000).
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- The Clause Structure. In 14th Italian Meeting of Afro-Asiatic Linguistics (Dell'Orso), pp. 225–238.