Guru language
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Extinct Bantu language of South Sudan
Guru | |
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Boguru | |
Native to | South Sudan |
Ethnicity | 490 refugees in Congo (1997),[1] now returned to South Sudan |
Extinct | (date missing)[2] |
Language family | Niger–Congo?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bqu |
Glottolog | bogu1241 |
Guthrie code | D.302 [3] |
ELP | Boguru |
Guru, or Boguru, is a poorly documented South Sudanese Bantu language of uncertain affiliation (though listed as unclassified Zone D.30 by Guthrie). For a while, a number of speakers were refugees in DR Congo, but the language is apparently now extinct there as well.[2]
References[]
- ^ Guru language at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
- ^ a b Guru at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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