Biyanda-Buli language

Biyanda-Buli
Southwest Gbaya
Native to Central African Republic
Native speakers
200,000 (2007)[1]
Includes Toongo
Dialects
Biyanda
Buli
Language codes
ISO 639-3 gso (partial)
Glottolog sout2785[2]

Biyanda (Ɓìyàndà) and Buli (Ɓùlì) constitute a Gbaya language of the Central African Republic. Ethnologue groups them as Southwest Gbaya, but it is not clear how many of the Southwest varieties are part of the same language; Toongo and Mbodomo, for example, are not closely related, though Toongo speakers identify ethnically as Buli, and Ethnologue also lists Mbodomo as a separate language.

References

  1. Biyanda-Buli at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Southwest Gbaya". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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