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Furu language

Furu is a Central Sudanic language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Glottolog has it as one of the Kara languages, in line with recent literature, while Blench (2012) follows older lit in listing it as a Kresh language.

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Furu
Bagero
Native toDemocratic Republic of the Congo
Native speakers
(16,000 cited 1984–1996)1
Language codes
ISO 639-3fuu
Glottologfuru1242

Furu is a Central Sudanic language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Glottolog has it as one of the Kara languages, in line with recent literature,2 while Blench (2012) follows older lit in listing it as a Kresh language.

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References

  1. Furu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Furu". Glottolog 4.3.
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