Bomu language
Not to be confused with Bo language or Boo language.
- This article is about the West African language. For the variety of Dogon sometimes known as Bomu Tegu, see Toro so.
| Bo | |
|---|---|
| Western Bobo Wule | |
| Bomu | |
| Region | Burkina Faso, Mali |
| Ethnicity | Bwa |
Native speakers |
(56,000 in Burkina (1991) 100,000 in Mali cited 1976 census)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
bmq |
| Glottolog |
bomu1247[2] |
| Person | Bo |
|---|---|
| People | Bwa |
| Language | Bomu |
The Bo language of West Africa, Bomu (Boomu), also identified as Western Bobo Wule, is a Gur language of Burkina Faso and Mali.
Bomu is spoken by two groups of Bwa people, the Red Bobo, Bobo Wule (also spelled Bobo Oule), and the White Bobo, Bobo Gbe, also known as Kyan (also spelled Kian, Tian, Tyan, Can, Chan) or Tyanse.
References
- ↑ Bo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Bomu". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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