Busa, or Bisã, is the Mande language of the former Borgu Emirate in northwestern Nigeria and northern Benin. It is called Busanci in Hausa, and has also...
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busa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Busa or BUSA may refer to: Bussa, Nigeria, the capital of Borgu Busa language (Mande), spoken in Borgu Busa language...
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speak Busa (also known as Bisã) and Boko (also known as Boo). This peoples are referred to as Bussawa in Hausa. Busa language (Mande) Boko language Kyenga...
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both. Mande Southeast Mande Southern Mande (Dan, Mah, etc.) Eastern Mande (Bisa, Busa, etc.) West Mande Central West (Manding–Kpelle) Central Mande Susu–Yalunka...
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Eastern Mande languages (called Eastern Eastern Mande by Kastenholz, and Niger–Volta by Schreiber and also known as the Bisa–Busa languages) are a branch...
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branches represented in Nigeria are Mande, Atlantic, Gur, Kwa, Benue–Congo and Adamawa–Ubangi. Mande is represented by the Busa cluster and Kyenga in the northwest...
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Senufo languages are bounded to the west by Mande languages, to the south by Kwa languages, and to the north and east by Central Gur languages. The Senufo...
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proposed family of languages spoken over the majority of sub-Saharan Africa. It unites the Mande languages, the Atlantic–Congo languages (which share a characteristic...
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Bissa people (category Mandé people)
a Mande ethnic group of south-central Burkina Faso, northeastern Ghana and the northernmost tip of Togo. Their language, Bissa, is a Mande language that...
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list of Mandé peoples of Africa. The predominant countries of each group's residence are shown in bold and are italicised. Manding (whose languages are in...
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solve for quantum computers. BQP or bqp can also refer to: Busa language (Mande), a language spoken in Nigeria and Benin, by ISO 639 code Great Order Party...
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Shongawa) is a Mande language of Nigeria. Shanga is a town situated in Sokoto State, Nigeria. The Shanga language is an endangered language and the Shanga...
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Boko, or Boo, is a Mande language of Benin and Nigeria. Boko is the best-known name of this language, but it is also known as Boo or by its Hausa exonym...
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Samo (Sane, San, Sa), also known as Mande Samo, is a dialect cluster of Mande languages spoken in Burkina Faso and Mali. Intelligibility between Samo...
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The Bantu languages (English: UK: /ˌbænˈtuː/, US: /ˈbæntuː/ Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀), or Ntu languages are a language family of about 600 languages of Central...
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They comprise all of Niger–Congo apart from Mande, Dogon, Ijoid, Siamou, Kru, the Katla and Rashad languages (previously classified as Kordofanian), and...
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families. The classifications below follow Glottolog. Mande, some 70 languages, including the major languages of Mali and Guinea; these are generally thought...
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(sometimes called East Benue–Congo) is a major branch of the Volta-Congo languages which covers most of Sub-Saharan Africa. Central Nigerian (or Platoid)...
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Mprε or Mpra is an extinct language spoken in the village of Butei (8°52′N 1°15′W / 8.867°N 1.250°W / 8.867; -1.250) in central Ghana, located between...
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language – Language that is at risk of going extinct Ethnologue#Language families Extinct language – Language that no longer has any first-language or...
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The Beboid languages are any of two families of Southern Bantoid languages spoken principally in southwest Cameroon, although two (Bukwen and Mashi) are...
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The Grassfields languages (or Wide Grassfields languages) are a branch of the Southern Bantoid languages spoken in the Western High Plateau of Cameroon...
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Kyenga (also spelled Tyenga, Tienga, Kyanga, Tyanga, Cenka, Kenga), is a Mande language of Nigeria and Benin. Usage is declining, and the Kyenga are shifting...
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250 languages, with some accounts reporting around 600. These include 55 Afro-Asiatic languages, two Nilo-Saharan languages, four Ubangian languages, and...
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Volta–Niger family of languages, also known as West Benue–Congo or East Kwa, is one of the branches of the Niger–Congo language family, with perhaps 70...
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Igboid languages constitute a branch of the Volta–Niger language family. Williamson and Blench conclude that the Igboid languages form a "language cluster"...
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Kordofanian branches and possibly Senufo. In the infobox at the right, the languages which appear to be the most divergent (including the dubious Senufo) are...
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The Ogoni languages, or Kegboid languages, are the five languages of the Ogoni people of Rivers State, Nigeria. They fall into two clusters, East and...
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The twelve Mambiloid languages are languages spoken by the Mambila and related peoples mostly in eastern Nigeria and in Cameroon. In Nigeria the largest...
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most spoken language in the group. The majority are threatened with extinction. The largest of these languages by far is the Tiv language for which the...
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