Guru language

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Guru
Boguru
Native toSouth Sudan
Ethnicity490 refugees in Congo (1997),[1] now returned to South Sudan
Extinct(date missing)[2]
Language family
Niger–Congo?
Language codes
ISO 639-3bqu
Glottologbogu1241
Guthrie code
D.302[3]
ELPBoguru

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[]

  1. ^ Guru language at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
  2. ^ a b Guru at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  3. ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online


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