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Buile Hill Park - Geograph
Buli language may refer to: * Buli language (Ghana), a Gur language * Buli language (Indonesia), a South Halmahera language * Biyanda-Buli language 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; ..., a Gbaya language of the Central African Republic * a dialect of the Chadic Polci language * a dialect of the Mongo-Nkundu language {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buli Language (Ghana)
Buli, or Kanjaga, is a Gur language of Ghana primarily spoken in the Builsa District, located in the Upper East Region of the country. It is an SVO language and has 200 000 speakers. The Buli dialects are not well researched and claims about these dialects are therefore inconsistent. One dialect is Chuchuliga, spoken in the northern part of Ghana close to Navrongo. This dialect is influenced by Kasem, which is another Gur language spoken in the Upper East Region of northern Ghana and in Burkina Faso. Chuchuliga has specific morphological features such as the lack of diphthongs, a richer nominal morphology and the lack of low tones, which are similar to other varieties of Buli. According to Ethnologue, Buli does not show dialectal variation and is reportedly similar to Konni, which is spoken in the districts of Nangurima and Yikpabongo. Moreover, Buli is lexically similar with Mampruli (77%). Phonology Consonants Vowels Tones There are three tonal levels in Buli, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biyanda-Buli Language
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 Gbaya languages Languages of the Central African Republic {{gbaya-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polci Language
Polci (Pəlci, Posə) is an Afro-Asiatic language of Bauchi State, Nigeria. It is part of the Barawa cluster, which is in turn part of the West Chadic language family. Dialects The Polci language is one of six dialect clusters of the Zaar subgroup of the Barawa branch of the Chadic languages. The Polci dialects are Zul, Baram (Mbaram), Dir, Buli, Nyamzak/Langas, and Polci proper. An extinct dialect called Luri was possibly dialect of Polci as well, but it is not well attested. History of scholarship There have been several attempts to clarify the linguistic situation in the southern and southwestern part of Bauchi State, Nigeria, of which the Polci cluster and Polci language are a part. In 1971, John Ballard, working with the Department of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages, University of Ibadan, did an extensive linguistic survey of the Nigerian Middle Belt published ''Historical inferences from the linguistic geography of the Nigerian Middle Belt''. As a result, it came ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |