Yulu
[alias Youlou,]Klassifizierung: Central Sudanic
·bedroht
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Bedroht
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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3,000 - 5,000
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"Given the wide geographical area where Yulu is spoken, it is extremely difficult to give even a rough estimate. I shall, therefore, confine myself to the sub-dialect under research. Even here the problem is complicated by the fact that... the language is spoken not only by the Yulu, but also by the neighbouring Binga and Kara. Furthermore, the only available figures from which the statistics have been quoted were those taken from the tax-payers list... It is the writer's own estimate from all indications that the
number of speakers of this particular sub-dialect under research may well range between 3,000-5,000."
- KOMMENTARE ZUM SPRACHKONTEXT
"Other tribes, i. e. the Binga (pronounced biýa) and the Kara speak it [Yulu] as well... Yulu is the dominant
language of this area. Although many languages are spoken here, Yulu is still to be reckoned with - though Kreish was the language chosen later after the Rejaf Conference to be the language of instruction in this area... Although the Kara language is different from either Yulu or Binga... the Kara have to still use Yulu as a lingua franca because, administratively, they form a unit with the Binga the immediate
neighbours of the Yulu. These three tribes are so much linguistically and culturally integrated today that the common nomenclature by which other tribes call them is 'Yulu'... Yulu was not one of the languages recommended by the Rejaf Language Conference."
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- Central African Republic and the Republic of the Sudan [now in South Sudan].
- WEITERE KOMMENTARE
"The Yulu language is spoken today in two neighbouring African countries - in the Central African Republic (formerly French Equatorial Africa) and in the Republic of the Sudan [now in South Sudan]. In the former, it is spoken in the sub-prefecture of the Ouande-Djale mainly by the Yulu tribe itself. In the Sudan [now in South Sudan], things are somewhat different. Other tribes, i. e. the Binga (pronounced biýa) and the Kara speak it as well. Yulu is spoken in two areas in the Sudan - in and around the Rodom area in South-Western Darfur province mainly by the Binga and the Kara, and in the Raga district of the Bahr el Ghazal province of the south Sudan by the Yulu and the neighbouring Binga and Kara... Ouande-Djald is supposed to be the original home of the Yulu."