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Bube, Bohobé, or Bube–Benga (Bobe, Bubi), is a Bantu or Bantoid language spoken by the Bubi, a Bantu people native to, and
once the primary inhabitants of, Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea. The language was brought to Bioko from continental Africa
more than three thousand years ago when the Bubi began arriving on the island. It has around 40,000 speakers, with three variants:
North, South and Central-East. The language has maintained nuclear archaisms from its Niger–Congo linguistic root. It is noted
for tonal character and the divergence of words by gender. The language is also spoken by Bubi native to Gabon and Cameroon.
The Bube language is divided into six different dialects that vary in the northern and southern regions of Bioko island. For
example, in the North, people speak Rebola and its variations: Basile, Banapa and Basupa. However, in the North-East, Bakake
is spoken. The first Bube-to-English primer was authored in 1875 by William Barleycorn, a colonial era Primitive Methodist
missionary of Igbo and Fernandino descent, while he was serving in the Bubi village of Basupu. An official language dictionary
and grammar guide was published by renowned ethnic Bubi scholar Justo Bolekia Boleká. |
Names (more)[en] Bubi |
Language type : Living
Technical notes
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : buwLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/buwhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:buw More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: buwFreebase ISO 639-3 : buw GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |