Bure language

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).[3][4][5]

Bure
Native toNigeria
RegionBauchi State
Ethnicity500 (no date)[1]
Native speakers
20 (2011)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3bvh
Glottologbure1242
ELPBure

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
  1. Bure at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) closed access
  2. Batic, Gian Claudio (2023). "Grammatical Sketch of Bure" (published 2014). ISBN 978-3896455284. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. Batic, Gian Claudio (2023). "Documenting Bure, a Chadic Language of Northern Nigeria: the Clause Structure" (published 2013). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. Batic, Gian Claudio (2023). "Documenting Bure, a Chadic Language of Northern Nigeria: the Clause Structure" (published 2011). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. Batic, Gian Claudio (2023). "The Bure Language: an Overview" (published 2011). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. Haruna, Andrew (2023). "Language Death: The case of Bubburè in Southern Bauchi Area, Northern Nigeria" (published 2000). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  • The Clause Structure. In 14th Italian Meeting of Afro-Asiatic Linguistics (Dell'Orso), pp. 225–238.



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