Endangered Languages Project - Buli

Buli

^{[aka Bili, Bɨlɨ, Bələ]}

Classification: Afro-Asiatic

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endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Bili, Bɨlɨ, Bələ
CLASSIFICATION		Afro-Asiatic, Chadic, West Chadic
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ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		Not to be confused with Buli spoken on Halmahera Island, Indonesia.

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Information from: “An Atlas of Nigerian Languages” (111) . Roger Blench (2012)

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
100-999
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"600 (LA 1971), ‘a few hundred’ (Caron 2005)"

DATE OF INFO: 2005

PLACES: Bauchi and Toro Local Government Areas, Bauchi State, Nigeria

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<600
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"less than 600"

DATE OF INFO: 2006

PLACES: Bauchi State, Nigeria

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: "the South of the Bauchi state (Nigeria)"

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<1,000
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"severely endangered with less than 1,000 speakers"

PLACES: Bauchi State, Nigeri

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: "the south of Bauchi State (Nigeria)"

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~4,000
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"approximately 4,000"

DATE OF INFO: 1995

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: "They speak Buli and use Hausa as a trade language. A few speak Sayanchi.”

PLACES: Bauchi and Dass Local Government Areas, Bauchi State, Nigeria

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: “The approximately 4,000 Buli live in Bauchi and Dass LGAs of Bauchi State."

PLACES: Bauchi State, Nigeria

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

10.233333, 9.783333

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Information from: “Tonal Inversion in Geji and Pelu” . Bernard Caron (2011)